Director of Quality and Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) - UK & IOM

Location: Flintshire, GB, CH5 2NS

Business Unit: Systems and Support

Function: Quality

TRIUMPH designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs and overhauls a broad portfolio of aviation and industrial components, accessories, subassemblies, systems and aircraft structures. We partner with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and operators of commercial, regional, business and military aircraft worldwide, to provide products and services that solve their hardest problems.

The Director of Quality and Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) is a senior leadership role reporting to the Director of Site Operations and operating as a key member of the UK senior leadership team. The role provides strategic and operational leadership for Quality and EH&S across all UK sites, ensuring the safe, compliant and consistent delivery of high-quality aerospace products within a complex and highly regulated manufacturing environment.

The Director will lead the development and deployment of a common zero-defect and zero-harm vision, embedding a Just Culture that promotes early risk identification, transparent escalation and organisational learning through mechanisms such as Flare Cards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic & Functional Leadership: Provide visible, values-led leadership for Quality and EH&S, role-modelling the organisation’s commitment to product integrity, safety and ethical behaviour.
• Own the UK Quality and EH&S strategy, ensuring alignment with operational priorities, customer expectations and regulatory requirements.
• Build and sustain a high-performing, multi-site Quality and EH&S leadership team through effective capability development, performance management, succession planning and targeted recruitment.
• Assess the effectiveness of existing Quality and EH&S systems, processes, structures and capability; define and deliver a clear roadmap for cultural and performance transformation.
• Lead the development and maturity of the Business Management System, ensuring consistency, discipline and continuous improvement across all sites.

Quality Excellence & Product Integrity:

• Establish and embed a common zero-defect quality vision, ensuring consistent standards, processes and behaviours across the UK business.
• Ensure products and processes consistently meet or exceed customer, regulatory, statutory and contractual requirements.
• Drive the evolution of Quality from inspection-led activity to system-based, preventative and data-driven solutions.
• Ensure effective deployment of APQP, risk management (FMEA/FMECA), configuration control and quality planning across new product introduction and programme delivery.
• Lead internal, customer, regulatory and third-party audits, ensuring timely closure of findings with effective root cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Maintain all required certifications and approvals, including AS9100, Nadcap and customer-specific accreditations.

Environment, Health & Safety Leadership:

• Provide strategic leadership for EH&S, ensuring full compliance with UK & IOM legislation, statutory obligations and corporate standards across all UK & IOM sites.
• Drive a proactive EH&S culture characterised by leadership engagement, personal accountability and employee ownership.
• Ensure robust systems for risk assessment, incident investigation, root cause analysis, reporting and corrective action.
• Oversee ISO14001 and ISO45001 management systems, ensuring audit readiness and continuous improvement.
• Lead site safety inspections, management reviews and statutory reporting, ensuring consistency and effectiveness.

Just Culture & Speaking-Up:

• Act as executive sponsor for a Just Culture, ensuring a fair, consistent and learning-focused approach to quality, safety and behavioural events.
• Champion the use of Flare Cards as a proactive speaking-up and early warning mechanism.
• Ensure leaders consistently differentiate between human error, at-risk behaviour and reckless behaviour.
• Ensure learning from Flare Cards, near misses and incidents is visible, shared and translated into meaningful system and process improvements.

Business Partnership & External Engagement:

• Act as a trusted business partner and change agent to the Director of Site Operations and senior leadership peers.
• Build strong, credible relationships with customers, regulators and certification bodies.
• Lead customer engagement on quality and EH&S matters, ensuring timely communication, effective containment and robust corrective action where required.
• Partner with Supply Chain to improve supplier quality performance.
• Provide Quality and EH&S input into bid proposals, capital investment decisions, new technologies and new programme introductions.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

• Degree qualified in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations or a related discipline, or equivalent senior-level aerospace quality leadership experience.
• Minimum 15 years’ progressive leadership experience within aerospace or a similarly complex, highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience leading multi-site Quality and EH&S functions.
• Strong working knowledge of AS9100, Nadcap, APQP, Lean Six Sigma, FMEA/FMECA.
• Demonstrated success delivering quality and safety culture transformation.
• IOSH Managing Safely as a minimum; NEBOSH General Certificate strongly preferred.
• Strong influencing capability at senior leadership level.
• Chartered Quality or Safety qualification.
• Lead Auditor qualification for AS9100, ISO14001 and/or ISO45001.
• Experience within complex machining environments and low-volume / low-mix aerospace manufacturing.
• Strong digital capability, with experience leveraging quality systems, analytics and data-driven decision-making.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into disciplined execution.
• Calm, resilient and decisive under pressure.
• Collaborative, inclusive and values-driven leadership style.

Our Vision: As one team, we enable the safety and prosperity of the world.

Our Mission: We partner with our Customers to TRIUMPH over their hardest aerospace, defense, and industrial challenges to deliver value to our stakeholders.

Our Values:

• Integrity – Do the right thing for our stakeholders.
• Teamwork – Win as One team-one company.
• Continuous Improvement – Pursue zero defect quality.
• Innovation – Passion for growing the business.
• Act with Velocity – Partner, anticipate and communicate.

Code of Conduct: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the TRIUMPH behaviours captured within our core values.

Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS): Employees are responsible for the Health, Safety, and Welfare of themselves, the environment, and other people.

Additional Information: Triumph is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.