In this role you act as the voice of quality across vehicle programmes, shaping quality ownership from concept to handover. You will work within the vehicle programme team to influence design, styling and manufacturing decisions, driving early quality governance and continuous improvement. You engage across levels to resolve issues, lead quality reporting and risk assessment, and partner with cross-functional teams to prevent repeat defects. This is a mission-driven position at a world‑class automotive innovator, offering impact across programmes and stages.
Pay / Benefits
25 days holiday plus bank holiday
Enhanced company pension scheme
Discretionary annual bonus
Private medical insurance and health cash plan
Life assurance benefit
Sabbatical option after two years’ service
Responsibilities
Lead the delivery of quality gateway deliverables for the allocated programme
Govern quality control and develop the project quality control plan
Ensure quality-related costs have a Value To Complete budget line
Lead Quality Concern Avoidance (QCA) to prevent repeat issues
Prioritise issues to inform programme launch decisions
Define quality targets per customer product audit and FPV
Support Designed for Quality (DFQ) direction in design/styling meetings
Support gap/flush and dimensional variation analysis reviews
Create, issue, and track programme quality reporting against MDProcess deliverables
Lead the quality risk assessment across the programme
Support technical problem allocations and risk-filter prioritisation
Assist problem-solving and escalate priority concerns through faults management processes
Key requirements
Experience of low volume, high value automotive products
Understanding of customer quality expectations
Experience of low volume launch activities and readiness reviews
Engineering design reviews and manufacturing process reviews
Faults management control and KPI delivery
Budget planning and review meetings
Experience with business and process audits
Understanding of new product release and change management process
Strong collaboration and teamwork
Excellent verbal and written communication
Ability to persuade, guide and lead with assertion
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