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Quality Improvement Lead

Cardiff, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-04 → 2026-08-01

Core

Drive operational quality performance and manufacturing reliability across a life sciences site to ensure right-first-time execution and protect product quality.

Role type

Quality Improvement Lead (Manufacturing)

Builds

Manufacturing processes and quality systems for life-saving diagnostics, vaccines, medicines, and cell/gene therapies.

Domain

Life sciences / Biotechnology / Regulated Manufacturing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Root cause analysis (RCA, 5Why, Fishbone, FMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Capability analysis, Pareto analysis, Trend analysis, Cost of Quality reduction, Process control design, Standard work implementation, Stakeholder alignment, ISO/cGMP compliance management

Preferred skills

Lean / DBS / Six Sigma certification, Audit/inspection support (ISO, FDA, MHRA), New product introduction support, Process change management, Equipment/method improvement

Technologies

SPC, RCA, 5Why, Fishbone, FMEA, DBS

Responsibilities

Deliver targeted quality initiatives to improve reliability and right-first-time performance; Partner with stakeholders to identify quality issues and execute practical improvements; Track and trend nonconformances and customer complaints to reduce recurrence; Apply data and quality tools to quantify performance and confirm root causes; Own initiatives to reduce Cost of Quality by strengthening process controls and embedding standard work

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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