Quality Manager
// Role Summary
Rolls-Royce is seeking a Quality Manager for their Defence Manufacturing business team in Bristol. This role is ideal for an experienced Quality professional looking to thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented operational environment, overseeing new manufacture and component repair activities.
// Key Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal management system requirements for OE and MRO activities.
- Deploy and coach others in the 8D problem resolution process.
- Manage mandatory occurrence reporting and investigation processes (DASOR, MEDA, MARS).
- Implement and embed quality improvement tools and techniques.
- Maintain visual governance to monitor quality performance and address shortfalls.
- Requires Certified Lead Auditor (ISO9001 and/or AS/EN9100/9110) qualification.
// Role Specification
Rolls-Royce is a business that has shaped the modern world and is committed to being a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere. By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
Position Summary
Quality Manager within our Defence Manufacturing business team. This role covers new manufacture of products for the JSF LiftSystem and Component Repair activities. The role will appeal to someone with Quality experience that thrives in a dynamic, team-oriented operational environment.
What you will be doing:
- Work closely with the Production Leadership Team to ensure compliance, across all OE and MRO activities, with both external regulatory and internal Rolls-Royce Management System requirements.
- Deploy the problem resolution process (8D); coaching others in its application and leading investigations, when required.
- Manage MRO related mandatory occurrence reporting (DASOR), human factors investigations (MEDA) and action reports (MARS) processes.
- Ensure Quality improvement tools and techniques are deployed and embedded into the day-to-day operation of the Facility, including support to the RR Production System.
- Maintain visual plant-based governance structure that informs the Plant of its quality performance and the actions that need to be taken to address any quality shortfalls.
Position Qualifications:
- Certified Lead Auditor (ISO9001 and/or AS/EN9100/9110)
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to analyse and solve complex problems
- Good leadership qualities: influencing, priority setting, conflict resolution and ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to stimulate and promote continuous improvement
Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.