Head of Quality Assurance #217728
Posted Today by Brightbridge Executive Search
Negotiable
Outside
Onsite
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Interim Head of Quality / Quality Manager involves leading quality initiatives within a fast-growing engineering and manufacturing business in West Yorkshire. This hands-on position focuses on enhancing quality culture and practices across the organization without adding bureaucracy. The successful candidate will be responsible for stabilizing quality systems, reducing quality issues, and improving ownership of quality at all levels. The role requires strong leadership and practical experience in quality management within manufacturing environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review and stabilize current quality systems and ways of working
- Reduce recurring quality issues and “right first time” failures
- Improve visibility and ownership of quality at all levels
- Assess the structure and capability of the existing quality function
- Lay the groundwork for a sustainable long-term quality model
Key Skills:
- Proven interim experience in manufacturing or engineered environments
- Strong practical quality leadership (ISO 9001, manufacturing quality, supplier quality)
- Comfortable operating on-site and influencing at senior and shop-floor level
- Pragmatic, delivery-focused and culturally aware
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Engineering
Interim Head of Quality / Quality Manager
West Yorkshire - 6 months - Outside IR35 - Engineering / Manufacturing - Onsite Role
We are supporting a well-established, fast-growing engineering and manufacturing business that is looking to appoint an Interim Head of Quality / Quality Manager. This is a hands-on, on-site interim role focused on resetting and strengthening quality across the business, driving the change required to instil quality at a cultural level across the organisation. The brief is not to add bureaucracy, but to improve consistency, ownership and day-to-day quality discipline on the shop floor and through the wider organisation.
Key focus areas:
- Review and stabilise current quality systems and ways of working
- Reduce recurring quality issues and “right first time” failures
- Improve visibility and ownership of quality at all levels
- Assess the structure and capability of the existing quality function
- Lay the groundwork for a sustainable long-term quality model
Ideal background:
- Proven interim experience in manufacturing or engineered environments
- Strong practical quality leadership (ISO 9001, manufacturing quality, supplier quality)
- Comfortable operating on-site and influencing at senior and shop-floor level
- Pragmatic, delivery-focused and culturally aware
If you are an experienced interim Quality leader available in the next few weeks and interested in a high-impact, outside IR35 assignment, please get in touch for a confidential discussion.