TT Electronics plc
Quality Manager (Resistors) (12 month, FTC)
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Company Overview
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When you join TT, you join our global community of visionaries, creators, and achievers dedicated to engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions enabling a safer, healthier and more sustainable world. Simply put, we are a global manufacturer with a passion for engineering advanced electronics that benefit our planet and people for future generations. We are committed to having a positive impact on the world through a culture built around safety, transparency, collaboration, and positive relationships. Our teams are fuelled by performance and expertise, leading the charge in innovation, efficiency and delivering world-class customer service. Be part of the journey.
Role Overview and Responsibilities
We are looking for an influential and driven Quality Manager to join our Resistor's leadership team in Bedlington.
This is a key senior management position at the Bedlington site, with responsibility for leading and developing our Quality function while supporting the continued growth and success of our manufacturing operation.
Working closely with the General Manager for Bedlington Resistors, you'll play a critical role in driving operational excellence, ensuring compliance with industry standards, improving business performance, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
By building strong relationships across all levels of the business, you'll drive continuous improvement, balancing quality, customer, operational and commercial priorities, and helping to shape and develop the future Quality strategy for the Bedlington Resistors site.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Quality Leadership
- Lead and develop the site's Quality Management System in accordance with ISO 9001 requirements.
- Drive quality improvement initiatives that enhance customer satisfaction and operational performance.
- Manage customer complaints, corrective actions and root cause investigations.
- Lead internal, supplier and customer audits.
- Monitor quality performance metrics and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Promote a culture of quality ownership and continuous improvement across the organisation.
Quality & Reliability Laboratory Management
- Provide leadership and oversight of the Quality & Reliability Laboratory.
- Ensure testing and product release activities are carried out accurately and in line with customer and industry requirements.
- Support reliability testing, product qualification and compliance activities.
- Review laboratory capability, performance and future investment requirements.
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Continuous Improvement
- Lead improvement projects using Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen and other quality methodologies.
- Drive defect reduction, waste elimination and process capability improvements.
- Support digitalisation and automation initiatives that improve quality and business performance.
This is a 12 month fixed term contract based at our Bedlington Resistors site.
Qualifications, Skills and Attributes
What We're Looking For:
- Significant experience in a Quality Management role within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.
- Experience leading audits, quality investigations and corrective action programmes.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Quality or a related discipline.
- Proven experience managing and developing teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
The following would enhance your application but are not essential to apply:
- Electronics, electrical component or related manufacturing background.
- Knowledge of AS9100, IATF16949 or TS16949.
- Experience with CECC standards and reliability testing.
- Lean Manufacturing and/or Six Sigma qualifications.
- Exposure to ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems.
- Experience using ERP systems, ideally SAP.
Why Join Us?
This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful manufacturing business in a highly visible site leadership role.
You'll have the chance to make a significant impact on quality performance, operational excellence and the future development of Quality activities across the site.
If you're a passionate Quality leader looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.
What We Offer You:
- Competitive Salary
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Healthcare cashback plan
- Employee assistance programme
- Site incentive plan
- Financial wellbeing benefit
- Discounted online and high street shopping and lifestyle vouchers
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounted RAC membership
- Discounted Gym membership
- 5 weeks (in hours) annual leave plus bank holidays
- A supportive and friendly working environment with a focus on wellbeing and sustainability
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TT Electronics are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.
Our Recruitment Process:
Initially we will reach out to you for an informal conversation about the role. This will allow you the opportunity to ask questions and find out more about TT, our site and our team. It will also give us the chance to learn more about you and your experience to date. At this point both parties have the opportunity to decide if they would like to continue with the process.
Please be aware that many roles at TT Electronics are subject to both security and export control restrictions which means that limitations relating to nationality may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). TT Electronics is unable to sponsor work visas for this role.
We hold Health and Safety in the highest regard at TT, with the Wellbeing of our employees our top priority. Any successful candidate will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening.
Solving Technology Challenges for a Sustainable World
We want the very best people in our TT family across the globe – so we welcome applications from everyone, to celebrate a diverse mix of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and you can rest assured that TT Electronics takes positive steps to ensure we are an inclusive business, that will welcome and support you, from your initial application to wherever your career takes you!
Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to your application, in order that we can accommodate and support you in the process. You can do this by emailing TTRecruitment@ttelectronics.com
If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.
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TT Electronics does not accept any unsolicited CVs from third parties. Any CVs submitted by a third party for this or any other position will not be subject to any recruitment fees if hired.
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