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Lead engineering improvement and quality excellence across a complex, safety-critical environment. The Role and About You: We are searching for a Continuous Improvement Manager to lead engineering performance, process optimisation and quality assurance activity within a busy production environment. This role gives you the opportunity to drive improvement initiatives, strengthen engineering systems and governance across multiple sites, supporting a wider quality and compliance team within the engineering function. In this role, you will bring together engineering and operational stakeholders to identify, design and implement continuous improvement initiatives across a multi-site maintenance operation. You will play a key role in strengthening quality systems, improving processes, and ensuring engineering activity consistently meets performance, safety and compliance requirements. The work you will personally deliver will drive positive change across multiple sites. You will lead structured improvement programmes and embed a culture of data-driven decision making and operational excellence across engineering teams.
Job Responsibility:
Leading continuous improvement activity using structured methodologies (e.g. PDCA)
Driving improvements in engineering processes, systems and working practices
Maintaining and strengthening engineering quality management systems and controlled documentation
Coordinating internal audit activity and supporting wider audit programmes
Identifying, tracking and driving corrective actions through to effective closure
Working with engineering teams to develop and review KPIs and performance improvements
Facilitating cross-functional meetings, managing actions and ensuring delivery
Supporting process, systems and documentation improvements across engineering functions
Engaging with suppliers and supporting periodic review activity within quality frameworks
Promoting consistent standards and continuous improvement culture across engineering teams
Requirements:
Proven experience delivering continuous improvement, engineering change or business improvement programmes in an engineering (production or maintenance) based environment
Knowledge of quality management systems and ISO9001 principles
Strong stakeholder engagement and leadership capability across technical and operational teams
Confident working with data, performance metrics and structured problem-solving tools
Able to influence, prioritise and deliver change across multiple sites
Nice to have:
Previous experience within the rail sector would be highly advantageous