Job description
Senior Quality Manager
Competitive salary and benefits package
Slough Berks SL2 5DS
With significant quality management experience in a manufacturing environment, you are ready for your next career step with a world expert in making coatings. Operating in over 150 countries and home to Dulux the UK’s favourite paint, AkzoNobel has been awarded Top Employer status in the UK and Europe.
We are now looking for a Senior Quality Manager to manage, coach and develop a high performing Quality Operations team for our UK & I business based in Slough.
Senior Quality Manager – The Role
- Develop, implement, communicate & maintain a 3-year quality strategy.
- Ensure compliance with National/International Quality Standards & customer requirements including ISO 9001.
- Co-ordinate customer/supplier quality audits & responses to customer quality questionnaires.
- Establish a business wide quality network.
- Provide metrics, reporting & root cause investigation of significant non-compliance to process.
- Collaborate with colleagues to advocate our product quality throughout the business.
- Continually develop & align business processes, technology & infrastructure to meet future customer needs.
- Support continuous improvement projects.
Senior Quality Manager – About You
- Significant quality management experience in a manufacturing environment
- Quality Assurance auditor training to ISO9001 Lead Auditor status.
- Experience of continuous/process improvement in a commercial environment.
- Used to applying Six Sigma methodology.
- Comfortable managing projects & change programmes.
- Excellent communication, influencing & interpersonal skills.
- Effective at nurturing & coaching high performing teams.
- Enjoys a collaborative work environment where supporting colleagues is key.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Slough
About AkzoNobel
CEO: Gregoire Poux-Guillaume
Revenue: $10+ billion (USD)
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: www.akzonobel.com
Year Founded: 1792