Quality Manager

Quality Manager

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. That's our story. Make it your story.

This position reports to

Local Division Manager & Site Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to deploy and lead the quality strategy for a local organizational unit, including quality culture, systems, tools, and competent teams, with the aim to achieve and exceed customer expectations while ensuring sustainable operations. Each day, you will drive the local quality system through the right mix of prevention, continuous improvement, robust root cause analysis, quick response, and sustainable solutions to problems. You will also showcase your expertise by coordinating the efforts of all necessary local functions that impact the quality results to reach the targets for the organizational unit and aim for world-class performance and ensuring that the necessary certification requirements are met throughout the organization.

The work model for the role is: onsite from our Stonehouse location #LI-onsite.

You will be mainly accountable for:

1. In collaboration with the Senior Management Team, lead the quality projects with clear guidelines, tasks, and milestones, while motivating and providing feedback.
2. Identify, analyze, and manage quality topics, sharing lessons learned on a regular basis.
3. Build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders.
4. Influencing and consulting with management within the local ABB unit to innovatively shape the design and development of your functional area to improve the organization’s overall performance.
5. Ensuring appropriate internal and external communication relevant to quality management system.
6. Implementing short, medium- and long-term strategy, activities, and planning to develop the quality management system, based on identified risks and opportunities, in collaboration and agreement with the local management team.
7. Establishing a closed-loop quality cycle from product development to customer experience feedback to ensure customer requirements and expectations are met.

Qualifications for the role

• Significant proven quality management and people leadership experience.
• Ability to lead a quality team with demonstrated experience of managing changes and implementing new ways of working.
• Proven track record of managing quality projects.
• Collaborative, solution-oriented approach, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Budget experience is vital for this role, with an awareness of managing scrap, warranting, and inventory.
• Excellent organizational skills to plan and execute activities, considering deadlines and priorities.
• Ability to quickly assimilate complex information and take necessary actions.
• A chemical background would be beneficial but is not essential.

More about us

For the 4th year running ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.

The Measurement & Analytics Division is among the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of smart instrumentation and analyzers, working at the heart of industrial digital transformation. The Measurement & Analytics Division’s portfolio consists of analyzers measuring compositions of gases and liquids; instrumentation measuring process variables such as temperature, pressure, flow, and level; force measurement solutions measuring parameters such as flatness, thickness, and tension; and advanced digital solutions for device management, device health check and predictive maintenance. The Measurement & Analytics Division serves key industries such as oil and gas, chemical, water and wastewater, power, hydrogen, batteries, as well as the marine industry. The Division enables the optimization of industrial processes by providing and analyzing data collected from sensing and smart measurement devices. Parameters such as emission levels and production inputs are measured by providing ‘before’ and ‘after’ values, enabling efficient operations and environmental sustainability through measurement.

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