Quality & Compliance Manager

Responsibilities

• Your responsibilities and activities will include:
• Develop the regional strategy, objectives and targets in conjunction with regional teams, leadership team and in line with corporate strategy.
• Collaborate with departmental leads to actively promote a right first time culture and ensure that there is sufficient attention on quality deliverables & continuous improvement across the value chain.
• Be the specialist on quality management with oversight of quality critical management topics, risk issues and performance data utilising company provided databases and tooling.
• Actively promote the effective use and improvement of the Vanderlande quality management system processes, templates and company databases and tooling. Audit program to check compliance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Own and continuously improve the Quality Management System (QMS) and associated processes and procedures in line with relevant standards (e.g., ISO 9001), regulatory obligations and customer-specific requirements.
• Plan and deliver an internal audit programme to assess compliance with standards and company policies; lead/support external audits, ensuring timely preparation, effective follow-up and closure of findings.
• Ensure quality deliverables are defined, communicated, delivered and reported through each phase of projects and maintenance/service contracts (planning, execution, commissioning, handover and warranty/aftercare as applicable).
• Oversee inspection, testing and verification activities (including review/approval of specifications, work instructions and QC documentation) to ensure products and services meet quality requirements.
• Collaborate with procurement, suppliers and subcontractors/contractors to ensure incoming materials and outsourced processes meet defined quality requirements; support evaluation and improvement of supplier performance where needed.
• Plan and deliver quality training and awareness (including Process Map 2.0 / QMS process deployment), supporting teams to implement quality requirements effectively and consistently.
• Facilitate resources & the support of relevant subject matter experts to enable significant quality issues to be investigated and addressed. Escalate critical topics. Collaborate with the corporate quality team for major problem solving and support, and quality reporting towards the Board.
• Use tools such as 8D, 5 Whys, and Six Sigma to address and resolve quality problems and drive continuous improvement activities and be the Domain lead in advising and su

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Additional Information

Job Title Quality & Compliance Manager Job Description Reports to: Head of QHSE UK&I Location: London - Heathrow Contract Type: Permanent Introduction to role Vanderlande is a global leader in logistics process automation across the airports, and parcel sectors. The UK& Ireland Quality, Health Safety and Environment department forms part of our global organisation with a focus on the projects being delivered in the UK and Ireland region. As a Quality & Compliance Manager, you will play a key role in delivering complex engineering projects in a collaborative and supportive environment. You will collaborate with colleagues across engineering project management, customers, and partners to ensure high-quality technical solutions are delivered safely, sustainably, and on time. This role offers the opportunity to develop while contributing to projects with real‑world impact. Vanderlande values different perspectives and supports ongoing learning and career development and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences as we build a diverse engineering team

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