Project Quality Lead

Gordon Murray Automotive; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury automotive manufacturer in the UK is seeking a Project Quality Lead to ensure quality planning and delivery for vehicle programmes. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in leading quality processes in engineering and will be responsible for project quality metrics and management reporting. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and benefits in a dynamic environment focused on delivering high-quality automotive products.

Benefits

Competitive Base Salary

Private Medical Scheme

Life Assurance

Holiday Loyalty Bonus Scheme

Enhanced Personal Pension Plan

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay

Cycle to Work Scheme

Salary Sacrifice Car Lease Scheme

Parking Onsite

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Quality Leader in new product introduction.
• Experience influencing senior leadership to promote quality culture.
• Organised and resourceful team player.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for project quality planning and delivery.
• Liaise with Project Manager for quality element planning.
• Implement quality issue and risk processes.
• Lead APQP and PPAP processes for assigned programmes.

Skills

Quality Leadership

Project Management

Verification and Validation

Interpersonal Skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Engineering or Quality Discipline

Job description

Overview

Project Quality Lead role at Gordon Murray Automotive. Gordon Murray Automotive is a UK-based global luxury brand dedicated to creating and manufacturing the world’s greatest driving cars. These ultra-exclusive cars are engineered and designed without compromise to provide unrivalled driving experiences and driver-centric connection.

Department: Quality

Location: Windlesham

Description

The Project Quality Lead is responsible for project quality planning and driving delivery of the agreed project quality plan activities for the full lifecycle of allocated vehicle programmes. This responsibility extends to cover all aspects of quality plan requirements within NPI programmes up to and including project handover to production.

Key Responsibilities

• Liaise with the Project Manager to understand the full timing and objectives for the programme to enable effective planning of the required quality elements.
• Develop the project quality plan covering all aspects of quality to meet the needs of the programme and ensure its communication across the quality and project teams.
• Work directly with all organisation levels within Project Management, Design, Development, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Aftersales to ensure focus is maintained on all aspects of quality throughout the lifecycle of the programme.
• Be accountable for the delivery of all elements of the quality plan that are owned within the Quality Team.
• Responsible for project quality targets and management reporting metrics, ensuring alignment to project requirements.
• Reporting of project progress to the Quality function and project governance boards.
• Ensure delivery of the programme to the applicable Company standards.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and support the development of the Project Lifecycle process.
• Provide programme quality management and mentorship within assigned vehicle programmes to Engineering and Development teams, Quality teams, Business Operations, styling, and aftersales, with a focus on developing the steps to ensure every process and technology releases meet the high Company Standards.
• Implement and manage the quality issue and risk processes at project and product level, ensuring all issues and risks are mitigated and managed effectively through to conclusion.
• Coordinate end-to-end quality analytics to measure and report project progress, ensuring we have appropriate and efficient tools and systems with effective workflow, controls and security aligned to business policies and procedure.
• Work directly with Homologation and Compliance to ensure the project supports maintenance of OEM status and conformity of production approvals.
• Lead APQP and PPAP processes including planning and definition of their application on assigned programmes.
• Collaborate with the Supplier Quality Manager and Lead to ensure allocation of resources to support delivery of requirements in line with the programme plans, ensuring end-to-end oversight from project initiation to full vehicle sign-off and PSW completion.
• Define product acceptance standards and processes for validation of product to those standards to enable generation of certificates of conformance at a vehicle level.

Managerial/Team Leader Responsibilities

• Establish strong team member relations, and provide support for people development, coaching and mentoring.
• Ability to lead and influence others within a project matrix organisation.
• Set, support and motivate team members to achieve project objectives.
• Communicate project quality goals, expectations, and changes clearly and effectively to the team and wider business.
• Coordinate with other members of the Quality leadership team to ensure effective management of day-to-day activities of the team.
• Plan and evaluate project quality activities and delegate as required.
• In conjunction with other members of the Quality leadership team, have responsibility for resource planning within the team/department, working with the internal recruitment team when needed.
• Champion the use of best practice quality tools, training, and standard work within the project.
• Manage conflict, resolve incidents, and solve problems.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

• Degree qualified or equivalent relevant engineering, science numerical or quality discipline.
• Significant experience as a Quality Leader within new product introduction programmes and/or technical or engineering organisations supported by hands-on operational quality experience.
• Experience in leading the quality approach of a function or project level in a rapidly maturing organisation.
• Experience of persuading and influencing senior project leadership teams and senior technical leaders to support the implementation of quality culture within projects.
• Good understanding and experience of implementing concepts for verification and validation.
• Experience of developing, implementing, and managing the APQP/PPAP processes, at tactical and project levels.
• Organised, persuasive, resourceful, flexible, ambitious, self-directing, with a passion for delivering objectives, and comfortable challenging existing processes.
• Must be a team player.

Desirable

• Project management qualification AMP, PMI etc, with experience of successfully delivering multiple projects and developing project management processes.
• Background and/or experience of high performance, technology, aerospace as well as automotive.
• Experience of technology development, demonstrating technology maturity.

Benefits

As well as the opportunity to work with a fantastic team, the position comes with:

• Competitive Base Salary
• Private Medical Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Holiday Loyalty Bonus Scheme
• Enhanced Personal Pension Plan
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Car Lease Scheme
• Parking Onsite

Gordon Murray Group is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, race, marital status, genetic information or parental status. We strive to promote a workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages individuals to express their opinions and beliefs.

Please note: All applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK.

Seniorities and Type

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Quality Assurance
• Industries: Automotive

Equal opportunity and inclusion statements have been kept as part of the description to reflect legally required information.