Quality Team Leader

Quality Team Leader

Location: Reading / Basingstoke Area - 4 days working week

Salary: £35,720 - £39,000 depending on skills and experience

Closing Date: 21st Feb 2024

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
• Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution).
• Life Assurance.
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family.
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site.

Key Accountabilities:

• To ensure that Quality is delivered through AWE behaviours and that a right first time every time culture is sustained.
• Provide technical guidance and customer support to ensure that deliverables and targets are met.
• Maintenance and enhancement of staff and own skills, knowledge, and capabilities necessary to support both current and future work programmes. Identify training to promote continuous improvement and enhancement of capability.
• Lead a small team in all Quality related activities and ensure staff are adequately trained and practised in the task.
• All - maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
• Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support delivery of technical assessments using appropriate methodologies and contributing to capability development.
• Attend design/technical/task reviews, defect reviews and stakeholder meetings as required to ensure Quality is represented.
• Control of inspection/calibration/reporting staff and processes, to ensure Quality delivery is maintained.
• Engagement with relevant stakeholders across AWE, the UK and our international partners.
• Manage team training and ensure that all members maintain their competence profile.
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

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