quality manager Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Job description
Reporting to the Director for Organisation Development, high level responsibilities include:
· Quality Management System:
· Product Quality
· Product Testing, Verification and Complaint Resolution
· Communication, Engagement & Development
Ulster Carpets is one of Northern Ireland’s leading exporters, manufacturing luxury carpet for hospitality and residential customers across the world.
Ulster has been weaving carpet in Northern Ireland since its foundation by George Walter Wilson in 1938 and the company continues to be a family business with a professional management team focused on growth, innovative technology and significant investment for the future.
The Group is headquartered on the original 1938 site at Castleisland Factory in Portadown, with UK manufacturing sites in Portadown, Dewsbury and Sunderland.
Globally, the company employs more than 600 people with sales and design offices in the UK, USA, France, Germany and the Middle East.
The Ulster Carpets Group includes wool processing company, Ulster Yarns Ltd, based in Yorkshire; Danish carpet manufacturer, Danfloor; technical textile machinery manufacturer, GTM and Ulster North East, both located in Sunderland; and Axfelt, manufacturers of a fully sustainable underlay, based in South Devon. The Group who have recently acquired Alternative Flooring, also includes luxury interiors brands, Roger Oates Design Ltd, designers and makers of unique stripe runners and rugs, based in Herefordshire and Solidwool, a unique composite material founded on transforming unwanted wool into beautiful, lasting design.
The company has recently become one of only three companies in Northern Ireland to be awarded a Royal Warrant by HM The Queen and has been a named as the Best Sustainable Business 2023 at The Irish News Workplace & Employment Awards.
Across the world, Ulster Carpets continues to demonstrate excellence in design, creativity and exceptional service levels as well as the highest levels of Quality, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability performance.
As the company embarks on the next phase of its investment programme, this is a rare opportunity to join the Ulster Carpets’ management team as a Quality Manager to build on and modernise the quality culture across our different sites.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free flu jabs
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Yearly bonus
COVID-19 considerations:
Procedures in place
Application question(s):
- The successful candidate will possess:
- Educated to degree level preferably in an engineering, materials, textiles or related field
- Proven record of streamlining a Quality Management System
- Up to date knowledge of ISO9001:2015 and ISO14001:2015
- Experience of developing an integrated management system manual and associated SOPs
- Management of product technical specifications, product testing and CE marking
- Ability to build a strong rapport with sales teams, clients and suppliers
Education:
- Bachelor's (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 10/08/2023
Reference ID: QM0823
