Quality Manager

Quality Manager 

Harmonics Recruitment are currently recruiting for an experienced Quality Manager to join a leading global aviation organisation based in Kildare, Ireland. This is a senior leadership role responsible for the full quality system and regulatory compliance of the repair station.

Overall Responsibility

The Quality Manager is responsible for establishing, implementing, monitoring and operating a total quality system for the repair station and ensuring it complies with regulatory requirements and meets the needs of the business. This includes the management of the Quality department; selection, training, and development of subordinates; development, implementation, and maintenance of the necessary quality procedures and systems; and coordinating activities between the regulatory agencies and the repair station.

Responsibilities Include

• The repair station’s quality procedures, processes and MOE (Maintenance Organization Exposition)
• Obtaining and maintaining all necessary authority approvals
• Obtaining and maintaining all capability authorizations for the repair station
• Ensure that internal audits are carried out on this MOE and any external agency providing services to the organization
• Issue certifying authority to personnel qualified to perform certification
• Establishing and maintaining maintenance personnel training program and maintaining a record of maintenance personnel for training, ratings and qualifications
• Independently develop, document and implement all work procedures and Repair Station Processes including all necessary interface processes
•  Guide operations to transfer contractual obligations into a stable production
• Assuring conformity to airworthiness, environmental, health and safety directives
• Coordinate quality programs with network quality management
• Coordinate with the product centre regarding applicable standards

Specific Accountabilities

• Monitor, audit and optimize repair station quality procedures and processes
• Manage quality escapes/turn backs
• Perform all necessary communications with authorities
• Determine and organise all necessary trainings (including training material, training courses, training engines and classroom training)
• Determine and organise human factors training
• Develop and maintain all repair station processes including all necessary interface processes
• Perform his/her work duties out of Dublin (Ireland)
• Interface with all repair station functions (e.g. production, engineering, materials, finance, etc.)

Person Specification 

• The candidate should essentially fulfill the following requirements:
• Strong leadership ability with experience of leading teams and projects
• Thoroughness, accuracy, and attention to detail are key
• Ability to lead and manage change
• Problem solving ability in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to work with all levels within the company
• Customer focused
• Ability to work under sustained pressure in a most competitive environment
• Ambitious, motivated, energetic, enthusiastic self-starter who can work on their own initiative
• Diplomacy and negotiating ability
• Ability to identify business issues and barriers
• Willingness to travel as per business requirement

Specific qualifications include 

• Previous experience in Quality Management and auditing
• A qualification in the related field
• Business acumen
• Excellent communicator both verbally and written, and strong interpersonal communication skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Disciplined approach to work and must be proactive in implementing positive change
• Must be self-driven and be capable of working with peer group to reach agreed management positions
• Highly detail orientated
• Spoken and written experience of the German language would be an advantage