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About the Role
Supports the Supplier Quality Manager by working closely with suppliers to ensure processes, systems, and products meet customer design intent and quality requirements. The role focuses on supplier verification, defect prevention, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement, while managing customer-specific requirements and providing technical support. It ensures robust product quality through New Product Introduction, minimises quality costs, and safeguards continuity of supply. The position contributes to complex, multi-phase projects, with outcomes reviewed at key milestones by senior management.
Responsibilities
- Conduct supplier validation and quality audits, lead supplier approval processes (including APQP), and assess manufacturing capability and HSE risks.
- Collaborate with Engineering and suppliers to define process parameters, improve capability, and support new product introduction and first-off approvals.
- Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions, including on-site verification and escalation of unresolved issues.
- Monitor, analyse and report supplier performance through KPIs, PPM, warranty, cost recovery, and quality data to drive continuous improvement.
- Promote and support process improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, PFMEA, MSA and error-proofing techniques.
- Ensure accurate documentation, compliance with regulatory and PPAP requirements, and provide quality training internally and externally.
- Develop strong stakeholder relationships, manage supplier strategy independently, conduct benchmarking, and communicate progress through reports and presentations.
Requirements
- Committed to Health, Safety, and Environmental policies.
- Resilient, positive, and adaptable, with the confidence to drive change.
- Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working with others.
- Self-aware, ethical, and honest, demonstrating moral courage in all interactions.
- Able to work independently, using initiative, as well as contributing to a team.
- Committed to continuous learning and professional development.
- Knowledge of quality and business systems including, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA).
- Experience of plastic injection moldings and/or metal forming preferred.
- Lean Manufacturing knowledge.
- Knowledge of ISO9001/ISO18001/ISO14001.
- Knowledge of measurement techniques and understanding and interpretation of engineering drawings.
- Substantial experience in a volume manufacturing environment.
- Experience of working in Quality Assurance.
- Experience of Supplier Quality Development.
Skills
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Lean Manufacturing
- ISO9001
- ISO18001
- ISO14001
- Measurement techniques
- Engineering drawing interpretation
Location
- Greenford
Work Type
- 40 hours per week
Experience Level
- Substantial experience in a volume manufacturing environment
- Experience of working in Quality Assurance
- Experience of Supplier Quality Development
Education Level
- Degree preferred
- HNC or equivalent experience in similar role
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
- workplace pension scheme
- profit share bonus
Benefits
- 9 Day Fortnight
- 25 days annual leave, plus all UK bank holidays, prorated
- Competitive Salary
- workplace pension scheme
- profit share bonus
- Up to 60% off Brompton bikes and accessories
- Discounts for friends and family
- Staff Loan Bike
- Free Breakfast
- Breakout Areas with games
- Access to free LinkedIn Learning
- Opportunity to devote some of your time at work to personal development
- Flexible Working
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Confidential EAP for mental health support
- Enhanced Family, Paternity and Maternity leave pay
About the Company
- We make bikes that move differently. Every fold, every ride, every detail matters. At Brompton, engineering and craft meet freedom of expression. Each bike invites you to explore your city, your routine, and yourself in new ways.
- We don’t just make bikes. We shape possibilities. Over fifty years of innovation flow through every frame, and every team member helps shape what comes next.
- Because we make bikes that surprise and delight, we want people who do the same. Your work matters. You’ll get hands-on, tackle real problems, and see the results on the streets, on the train and across cities around the world. At Brompton, craft, curiosity and community come together every day and you’ll be part of it.
Equal Opportunity
- Regardless of age, disability, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, culture, educational background, parental status, neurodiversity or disability - whoever you are, if you’re passionate about your work, curious, relentless and customer-obsessed, we want to hear from you.