Our world-leading Time & Frequency department seek an experienced and practicing Quality Lead.
As Senior Quality Lead, you'll enjoy partnering with prominent Scientists, Engineers, leaders and specialists in Time & Frequency. You will be responsible for ensuring quality and compliance with NPL’s quality management system in the development of novel science, running of time scale service, delivering test and evaluation services, and design consultation.
Key responsibilities:
- Primary contact for Quality Assurance best-practice; ensuring first-line checks and compliance, leading communication to implement Quality Management standards, customer testing and reporting, and consultancy.
- Compliance of Quality Systems; including data integrity, review of calibration of equipment, lab procedures, software compliance, training and competence records, and implementation of change control processes.
- Audit leadership and management; ensuring required documentation, evidence, and reports align with regulatory and accreditation requirements. Manage audit outcomes, root-cause analysis and corrective actions with relevant stakeholders, in a timely manner.
- Ensuring compliance: data integrity, completeness of info., review of calibration of equipment, procedures, software compliance, training and competence records, and uncertainty budgets.
- Leadership: create and maintain a Quality culture by driving compliance activities, such as training and guidance on best practice, and advising Project Management teams to drive Quality metrics. Ensure quality register is updated and reports are issued. Lead department change control processes and drive improvements in quality.
- Supply chain: Working with Lab Managers, Delivery Managers and Technical leads to develop and implement supply chain strategies; including supplier management systems, risk management, and quality agreements.
- Cross-functional collaboration: nurture supplier relationships, measure supplier performance, ensure quality control, and maintain regulatory compliance.
This role will require you to work in both an office and laboratory environment, at our Teddington site with occasional travel to support activities in our regional hubs.