# Project Quality Manager

**Company**: TEKEVER
**Location**: Bristol
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Project Quality Manager to lead quality assurance and quality management activities across TEKEVER projects and new business opportunities.

You will act as the Quality focal point for the projects, working alongside Project managers, engineering, supply chain and delivery teams to ensure that all deliverables meet contractual, regulatory and customer requirements.

This role sits at the centre of delivery,ensuring that quality is embedded across design, software development, integration and supplier activities.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the implementation of the Project Quality Management Plan (QMP) and ensure alignment with AQAP, AS9100 and contract requirements

- Act as the primary interface with the customer for quality and assurance activities

- Ensure full requirements traceability from contract through design, verification and release (via the compliance matrix)

- Oversee risk-based quality management, identifying issues early within processes rather than at final inspection

- Drive configuration management and change control to maintain baseline integrity across hardware, software and documentation

- Manage supplier quality and assurance, including supplier approval, performance monitoring and corrective actions

- Ensure objective evidence is generated and retained to demonstrate conformity to contractual and regulatory requirements

- Lead nonconformance management and CAPA processes, ensuring root cause analysis and effective closure

- Support design reviews, verification and validation activities, ensuring outputs meet requirements and acceptance criteria

- Contribute to performance reporting and management reviews, driving continual improvement across the project

**Requirements**

- Strong experience in Aerospace, Defence or regulated engineering environments

- Proven delivery within AS9100 / ISO 9001 QMS environments

- Experience working with Defence Standards or AQAP standards (2105, 2310 or 2210 desirable)

- Demonstrated ability to manage quality across the full lifecycle (design, development, integration, test and delivery)

- Strong understanding of:

- Configuration management

- Risk-based quality assurance

- Supplier quality / external provider controls

- Experience engaging with customers, regulators or assurance authorities

**Benefits**

- Be part of a high-growth, mission-driven programme

- Influence quality across hardware, software and system integration

- Collaborate with teams across engineering, autonomy, operations and supply chain

- Play a key role in delivering UK sovereign capability

## Skills

### Required
- AS9100
- ISO 9001
- AQAP
- configuration management
- risk-based quality assurance
- supplier quality

### Nice to have
- autonomous systems
- UAS
- software-intensive platforms
- Defence procurement frameworks
- MOD contracts

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