At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. Our customers use our NanoScience ultra-low temperature and high magnetic field environments to go beyond what was once thought possible, whether that’s creating Nobel Prize winning materials or developing quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems.
Quality underpins everything that we do.
Our NanoScience business is growing and for us to achieve our full potential we are reliant upon having an excellent Quality Management System. We are looking for an experienced Quality Manager who wants to make a real difference in their next role. We need you to work across all areas of our business, helping individuals, teams, and management to understand what day to day quality looks like and ensuring that the appropriate tools, processes, and reviews are in place for this to be achieved.
If you have experience of creating and developing a Quality Management System, gained in a similar environment, then we would love to hear from you.
The opportunity
In this role you will be responsible for the maintenance and development of the Quality Management Systems for NanoScience. This will include ensuring that the QMS contributes to and integrates with the business strategy, reporting to Senior Management on performance and effectiveness and implementing improvements where identified. This is an ongoing challenge to ensure that processes remain relevant and effective, to develop and implement KPIs, establish the audit system and maintain ISO9001:2015 (and other standards as applicable). You will also be required to lead the Quality Team, as well as engaging with the wider business to promote change and improvements, including with our suppliers. Crucially, this is not just a role about quality process, as key to your success will be your ability to work with the functions in the business and your own team to actually delivery on the diagnosis and resolution of daily problems as well as working on the quality aspects of new product implementation.
About You
To be successful in this fast-paced role it is likely that you will have membership of a recognised Quality & CI body, as well as a degree level qualification (technical or manufacturing) or the equivalent in relevant work experience. Your understanding of leading Quality Management Systems such as ISO9001, ISO13485 or TS16949 is essential, together with your proven ability to coach others towards positive quality and compliance behaviours. Your hands on, organised approach to work will be key in this role, as will your working knowledge of audit processes, implementing improvement strategies following those audits and supplier development.
Closing date - 22 February 2022
Benefits
In addition to a competitive starting salary, Oxford Instruments offers flexible working hours and a half-day on Fridays, 25 days annual leave, private healthcare, a share incentive plan, a defined contribution Group Personal Pension Plan, and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your own requirements. #LI-JR1
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
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