Quality Control Manager
14 days ago
Nottingham
Quality Control Manager – NMB Minebea UK (Lincoln) Are you an experienced Quality professional with strong leadership skills, ready to lead a full Quality Control function and drive world-class standards, continuous improvement, and regulatory compliance in a precision engineering environment? Our exclusive client NMB Minebea UK, part of a global manufacturing group with operations across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, is renowned for precision engineering and the production of mission-critical components. This Quality Control Manager role is based in Lincoln. You will lead the Quality Control department (20+ engineers and inspectors), ensuring high standards of safety, quality, delivery, and continuous improvement while embedding a culture of world‑class manufacturing and aerospace regulatory compliance across the site. As the Quality Control Manager, your responsibilities will include: • Demonstrating strong leadership to organise the Quality Control function, set clear expectations, and ensure every area understands its role in quality assurance, quality control, and compliance deliverables, • Performing training gap analysis across all quality functions and establishing clear strategies to upskill the team, • Maintaining a hands‑on, visible presence on the shop floor and across the business, • Ensuring full company compliance with aerospace QMS procedures (ISO 9001, AS9100, NADCAP, etc.), • Supporting inspectors in driving best‑practice inspection methods, • Leading root‑cause analysis investigations using proven problem‑solving methodologies such as 8D and 5 Why, • Ensuring compliance with First Article Inspection Reports to AS9102, • Overseeing company‑wide environmental compliance procedures to ISO 14001, • Driving reduction of non‑conformances, timely resolution of manufacturing/production issues, and effective continuous improvement through regular reporting on NCRs, KPIs, customer issues, shop‑floor deviations/concessions, and supplier performance As the Quality Control Manager you will bring: Essential • Apprenticeship, HNC/D (or equivalent) in an engineering discipline, • Strong leadership capability with a proven track record of improving team performance, • Background in quality assurance and quality control within a highly regulated environment, • Ability to lead a large quality function, • Demonstrable experience resolving manufacturing issues using 8D, 5 Why, and similar methodologies, • Hands‑on approach to leadership with a willingness to be visible across all areas, • Very strong communication and presentation skills (verbal and written), • Inspection and metrology experience, • Competent in all Microsoft packages with strong overall IT skills Desirable • Degree in an engineering discipline, • Aerospace manufacturing environment experience, • Experience with aerospace standards such as AS9100, AS9102, NADCAP, etc., • Knowledge of aerospace regulatory compliance (CAA, EASA, FAA), • Knowledge of machining processes and non‑destructive testing (NDT) procedures Hours of work Day Shift Monday to Thursday 07:30–16:00 Friday 07:30–12:30 Benefits • 25 days holiday + bank holidays, • Company pension – 5% employer contribution, • Subsidised health care, • Personal accident plan, • Uniform, • Bike to Work scheme, • Subsidised canteen, • On‑site parking, • Long service award, • Employee referral scheme, • Death in service scheme This Quality Control Manager position offers the opportunity to take the next step in your career, leading a substantial QC team in a stable, well‑established manufacturing site that values technical excellence, process discipline, and people leadership. You will play a key role in embedding a culture of world‑class manufacturing, reducing non‑conformances, and ensuring the highest quality standards for precision aerospace components. #J-18808-Ljbffr