Job Description Summary

The quality engineering team acts as a vital link between design, manufacturing, and customer delivery. We go beyond traditional inspection, embedding quality into every product we manufacture building lasting confidence with customers and stakeholders. Through a proactive, prevention-focused approach and data-driven methodologies, we strengthen capability, mitigate risk, and drive measurable business improvement while ensuring the highest standards of safety, reliability, and performance.
Our team designs, manufactures, and service highly complex engineered electrical machines and systems supporting critical energy, marine, defence, and industrial applications worldwide. By fostering a culture of rigor and precision, we ensure our products consistently meet customer, regulatory, and business expectations while helping power the world’s most demanding industries.
Please note you must hold a UK passport for Security Clearance reasons to be considered for this role.

Job Description

What you will do

As Senior Production Quality Manager, you will lead production quality operations across our Rugby site, ensuring product conformity, effective inspection strategies, and high levels of operational performance. Moving beyond traditional inspection, you will partner with operations and engineering teams to embed quality at the source, strengthen risk-based assurance practices, and accelerate the adoption of modern digital systems. You will influence manufacturing strategies, drive sustainable performance improvement across the site, and support the delivery of highly engineered products for critical industrial and energy applications.

Leadership & Development

• Lead and develop high-performing teams across all disciplines from engineers to apprentices setting clear performance objectives, manage 1:1 reviews, quarterly development checkpoints, and annual performance appraisals.
• Review legacy processes to drive the adoption of modern, effective methodologies.
• Provide daily leadership to the production quality organisation, setting clear objectives and development plans.
• Maintain rigorous performance management standards to ensure alignment with manufacturing and quality goals.

Operational Governance & Performance Management

• Chair daily quality governance meetings and hold authority over GO/NO-GO decisions.
• Monitor the RMR Quality Dashboard to identify trends, manage risks, and report performance to the leadership team.
• Drive measurable improvements in customer and internal escapes, Product COPQ, inspection backlogs, audit completion, and production recovery activities.

Product Conformity & Quality Assurance

• Define risk-based inspection strategies and lead production quality readiness activities, including FAT and pre-FAT milestones.
• Establish expectations for reliability engineering and analytical methodologies, including FMEA, DFMEA, FTA, and structured problem-solving approaches such as 8D and DMAIC.

Process Improvement

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for customer quality requirements, ensuring expectations are understood and achieved.
• Lead Lean Quality initiatives and chair weekly Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reviews to drive sustainable corrective and preventive actions.

Digital Transformation

• Lead the implementation of modern digital quality systems, including automated reporting, AI-enabled insights, and advanced Poka-Yoke solutions.
• Champion Visual Management, Kaizen activities, and lessons learned programmes to strengthen manufacturing robustness, quality performance, and operational efficiency.

Essential Candidate Requirements

• Professional Expertise: A degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or a Quality-related discipline (or equivalent professional experience) with a proven track record in manufacturing quality leadership.
• Team Leadership: The ability to coach and develop talent across diverse teams  
• Quality Transformation: Demonstrated success in leading quality transformation, moving beyond traditional inspection to embed quality at the source through modern, digital quality systems.
• Technical Skills: Advanced expertise in Root Cause Analysis (RCA), CAPA, ISO 9001, Lean manufacturing principles, and KPI management.
• Operational Influence: Experience influencing manufacturing strategy and driving operational excellence within high-compliance environments.
• You must hold a UK passport for Security Clearance (SC) to be considered for this role and a full UK driving licence. Please note we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.  

Desirable

• Advanced Quality Methodologies: Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, Control Plans, and statistical quality tools, including SPC and MSA.
• Continuous Improvement Expertise: Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification, or equivalent experience in driving operational and quality improvement initiatives.
• Industry Experience: Experience within rotating electrical machines, heavy engineering, power generation, aerospace, defence, or other complex manufacturing environments.
• Digital & Data-Driven Quality: Experience leveraging digital quality systems, performance analytics, dashboards, and ERP platforms such as SAP to drive informed decision-making and operational excellence

What We Offer

At GE Vernova, we invest in your long-term success and wellbeing through a comprehensive, flexible benefits package designed to support what matters most to you.

Our Total Reward offering includes competitive compensation, a performance-related bonus, flexible pension with a 10 % employers’ contribution, employer-funded private health insurance, income protection, and life assurance. We support your time to recharge with 26 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.

Our 'Flex Choice' programme, you can take advantage of corporate benefits such as buying and selling holiday, a cycle-to-work scheme, financial planning, critical illness insurance, personal accident cover, dental cover, option to add family to a private health scheme, and travel insurance.

Why Join Us?

Join us at a pivotal time as we modernise our manufacturing capability and shape the future of quality across our Rugby operation. This is an opportunity to influence strategy, lead meaningful change, strengthen digital capability, and make a lasting impact on the performance, reliability, and integrity of products used in critical applications worldwide.

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