Quality Professional X2 in Ulverston

Rullion is currently looking to recruit for the following role: Quality Professional.

Location: Ulverston

37 hours per week, fully site based. Core hours: 7am-6pm, 9am-3pm required in office.

Duration: 12 months > Long term and possible Temporary to Permanent.

The Quality Professional supports the development, implementation and continuous improvement of quality concepts, methods, tools and procedures across the Subsea business. Working within an agile and Lean-oriented Quality Management System, the role helps ensure quality requirements, risks and controls are effectively embedded within the assigned organisation, processes and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Quality Management System Implementation: Support the development, implementation, assessment and continual improvement of quality concepts, procedures, methods and tools within the assigned Subsea organisation or quality area, ensuring they are practical, effective and aligned with business needs.
• Quality Culture: Work with management and functional teams to promote an open, transparent and proactive quality culture in which issues are raised early, learning is shared and prevention is prioritised over reaction.
• Risk-Based Quality Management: Provide guidance to ensure quality risks are identified, evaluated, considered and controlled throughout relevant business, design and operational processes and through the effective use of the Quality Management System.
• Customer Experience and Feedback: Support the monitoring and review of customer experience and satisfaction measures across the end-to-end customer journey, ensuring insights are translated into appropriate improvement actions.
• Quality Transparency and Data Analysis: Create clear, timely and accessible visibility of quality performance, risks and trends through appropriate data, dashboards and ad-hoc analysis, enabling evidence-based decision-making, preventive action and continuous improvement.
• Preventive Quality and Continuous Improvement: Use quality data, risk information, lessons learned and structured improvement methods to identify emerging issues, strengthen controls and improve business and product quality performance.
• Standards and Compliance: Ensure relevant quality standards, legal requirements, internal procedures and customer requirements are understood, implemented and periodically assessed within the assigned organisation or quality area.
• Digital Quality Improvement: Identify, develop and support innovative digital solutions that improve quality transparency, efficiency, traceability and decision-making.
• Lean and Agile Improvement: Coach and support team members involved in Lean or agile improvement activities and coordinate or lead improvement initiatives using recognised methods.
• Process Improvement: Analyse end-to-end processes and connected process steps to identify waste, quality risks, control weaknesses and opportunities for improved flow, standardisation and effectiveness.
• Quality Training and Coaching: Develop, coordinate and deliver training and guidance for employees in relevant quality methods, processes, tools and behaviours.
• Quality Coordination: Coordinate quality-related activities and groups of quality professionals or subject-matter contributors without direct line-management responsibility.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Ensure effective cooperation with internal and external stakeholders, clarifying quality requirements, resolving issues and supporting coordinated decision-making.
• Quality Network Coordination: Support or coordinate assigned national and international quality networks in a defined quality area.
• Management Support and Escalation: Provide clear quality information, advice and escalation to accountable management where significant quality risks, compliance concerns or systemic issues require leadership attention.
• Audit and Management System Assurance: Support internal, customer and external audits and other management-system assurance activities.
• Cross-functional Improvement: Work collaboratively with Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Management, Supply Chain, Operations and other supporting functions to ensure quality considerations are integrated into business decisions and improvement activities.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience:

• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Business Improvement or a related discipline, or demonstrable equivalent industrial experience.
• Demonstrable experience in Quality Management, Quality Engineering, Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement or a related role within an engineering, manufacturing or technically regulated environment.
• Experience within Subsea, Oil & Gas, Energy, Automotive, Aerospace, Defence or another highly controlled engineering/manufacturing sector would be advantageous.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001 and other relevant industry-specific quality standards, customer requirements, legal requirements and quality-management practices.
• Good practical understanding of Quality Management Systems, risk-based thinking, quality planning, assurance and continuous-improvement principles.
• Experience using quality and improvement methods such as PDCA, root-cause analysis, Value Stream Mapping, process mapping and structured problem solving.
• Ability to analyse quality and customer data, identify trends and risks, and translate findings into clear preventive or improvement actions.
• Experience supporting audits, compliance assessments, management-system reviews or improvement activities within an established Quality Management System.
• Confidence using digital tools, dashboards or data-driven solutions to improve transparency, traceability and decision-making.
• Strong communication, facilitation, coaching and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to coordinate activities across multiple stakeholders, quality disciplines, sites or networks without relying on formal line-management authority.
• Strong commitment to customer satisfaction, quality culture, compliance, prevention, continuous improvement and right-first-time delivery.
• Professional engineering or quality membership, or progress towards professional registration, would be advantageous.

If available please send CV and a member of the team will be in touch. Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.