Quality Manager

Job Title Quality Manager

Job Location Brighton

Our Brighton business is moving to a new location in 2027. The new site is expected to be located in either Shoreham Burgess Hill or Horsham and will be within a 15-minute drive of our current site.

Job ID 40528

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

Operating at 11 sites in the United Kingdom L3Harris supports Britains mission to secure and strengthen the country by delivering sovereign innovation across the space air land sea and cyber domains.

L3Harris in Brighton are part of our Release Systems & Antennas division operating in the Aerospace domain. For over 70 years L3Harris has designed and developed industry-leading carriage and release systems for fighter rotary-wing and unmanned platforms and we design manufacture and test a large portion of our release systems portfolio in our Brighton facility which offers 48500 square feet of manufacturing space. Our mission-critical release systems equipment is on most major airborne fighter platforms worldwide including the F-35 along with other aircraft like the Gripen and Typhoon.

Please note our Brighton business is moving to a new location in 2027. The new site is expected to be located in either Shoreham Burgess Hill or Horsham and will be within a 15-minute drive of our current site.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan dental insurance gym membership critical illness cover cycle to work scheme travel insurance and electric car scheme
• Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

The Quality Manager is a core member of the Operations leadership team providing guidance on the governance cadence development implementation leadership & measurement necessary to ensure total quality management within the company.

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Ensuring the business adheres to governance standards regulations and customer requirements
• Develop and set Quality goals proactively seeking opportunities to provide QA inputs to company and operational strategy.
• Responsible for leading providing guidance coaching and training to the Quality team and other staff members.
• Actively engage in reducing operating costs and increasing efficiency seeking ways to improve performance of KPIs. Utilize Lean Six Sigma techniques and the E3 (Excellence Everywhere Every day) strategy.
• Lead the Quality team ensuring collaboration with the Supply Chain Manufacturing and Engineering Function to assure the quality of goods and services.
• Listen to customer feedback understand their requirements and seek opportunities for improvement.
• Benchmarking and adapting industry best practices to drive continual improvement in quality management processes.

What youll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Subject matter expert with comprehensive knowledge of Quality Assurance and Quality Management Systems with in-depth knowledge of manufacturing engineering development & project management.
• The incumbent must have experience of managing Supplier Quality Assurance Quality Engineering and Quality Control personnel.
• Substantial experience in a high complexity design and manufacturing environment preferably in the aerospace / defence industry.
• Experience working in an ISO9001/AS9100 environment preferably with previous experience of developing / supporting / maintaining high standards of accreditation.
• Previous experience in leading the solution for product realisation would be beneficial including APQP / PPAP customer interaction supplier interaction Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) support supplier component development & approval and supplier cost improvements.

Important to know

Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

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