Senior Quality Manager

Job Description

Senior Quality Manager

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71287

Job Title: Senior Quality Manager

Overview: Lead the quality management strategy across the T31 Defence Programme at our Rosyth site, ensuring every product, process and service meets the highest standards of safety, integrity and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of quality managers and specialists, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Oversee quality control and assurance processes to ensure compliance with industry standards and customer requirements.
• Develop and implement a robust quality management strategy aligned to business and programme goals.
• Drive quality improvement initiatives and identify risks, ensuring effective mitigations are in place.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, supply chain and regulatory bodies to strengthen quality performance across the programme.

Essential Experience:

• Experience in quality management within a shipbuilding or complex engineering environment, in a leadership capacity.
• Strong background in quality control or assurance within sectors such as naval, aerospace, manufacturing or automotive.
• Proven leadership skills, with the ability to motivate teams, influence stakeholders and drive change.
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities, with a data driven approach.
• Proficiency in quality management systems and continuous improvement methodologies.

Qualifications:

• Chartered Quality Professional or an equivalent professional certification – Desirable.

Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain a Security Check (SC) clearance for this role. Further details can be found at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels ().

Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Professional fees paid by the employer.
• Reservists receive 10 days of special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading: an annual window allowing employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
• ‘Be Kind Day’: one paid day per year for volunteering work with a registered charity.

Equal Opportunities: We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We are also open to flexible working arrangements.