Supplier Quality Manager

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Role Purpose

• To be functionally responsible for all Supplier quality activities, within the Site Procurement organisation.
• This role requires strong people leadership and resource management skills to deliver against performance objectives focused on continuous improvement, people development and supplier quality performance.
  
  

Job Responsibilities

• All Quality Assurance activities within the Procurement Business
• Assures that the Quality system is adequate and is being applied and adhered to within the business, through the provision of independently gathered evidence by the business.
• Assures that the certification processes within the business is adequately defined, accurate, credible, robust and consistently applied.
• Driving Supplier Quality Improvement Plans within the Function to achieve Global Procurement and department targets (i.e. escapes reduction plans and concession (tags) reduction plans)
• Contact point for partners / internal customer representatives, facilitating / managing customer inspection.
• Ensuring that competent Manufacturing Engineers accurately convert the customer requirements in to clear supplier instructions.
• Accuracy of the Quality data set.
• Acting as a focal point for Quality issues relating to the supply of product.
• Driving supplier process improvements
• Developing and deploying performance and process metrics that are consistent across the Global Procurement organisation.
• Ensure the Health and Safety policies and procedure are adhered to by the Procurement Quality team;
• Accountable for the management of the people within the Procurement Quality team ensuring that PDP, development plans and succession planning is completed;
• Ensuring that the people within the Procurement Quality team have the adequate skills to carry out their roles, where skill gaps are identified, putting training and development plans in place to address them.
• Ensuring adherence to all applicable regulatory, legal, and quality requirements.
  
  

Essential

• Degree Qualified or HNC/HND in Engineering;
• 10 years + engineering and quality experience;
• Proven track record in supplier quality management;
• Experience in problem solving tool sets (eg. G8Ds, Ishikawa diagrams etc)
  
  

Desirable

• Strong understanding of the Aerospace industry and associated technological and commercial trends
• Experience in New product Introduction and interaction between Purachsing and Engineering in Product Development
• Working experience of AS13XXX-standards and PPAP/APQA Understanding of the Aerospace industry and associated regulatory requirements and standards
• Core competences: Analytical ability, Coaching, Communicating, Decisiveness, Integrity, Consciousness of the environment, Planning and Organization, Professional content, Focus on results
  
  

Travel Requirements

• Regular travel to suppliers for the site
• Occasional global travel
  
  

What We'll Offer you!

Once you are on board you will get the following perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Shopping discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment
  
  

As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you!

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.