Project Quality Lead

Overview

Department: Quality

Location: Windlesham

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.

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 aspect 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 managed effectively through to conclusion.
• Coordinate an end-to end quality analytics to measure and report project progress, to ensure 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.
• Leadership of APQP and PPAP processes including planning and definition of their application on assigned programmes.
• Work 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 of and PSW completion.
• Ensure definition of 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 other 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.
• Co-ordination 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 team, 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, passion for delivering objectives, comfortable challenging existing processes.
• Must be a team player.

Desirable

• Project management qualification AMP, PMI etc, with experience of successfully delivering multiple project 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

• 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 do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.

All applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK.