Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a Head of Quality Management Systems (QMS/IMS) to lead our growing teams across our UK (ROW) sites.
Ontic is a more than just a business, we’re a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We’re committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.
About the role:

Reporting directly in to the Quality Compliance Director, you will have a dedicated focus on our compliance requirements with QMS/IMS approvals (AQAP, PPAP, FMEA etc.) You’ll ensure that we effectively implement and maintain the QMS throughout the business by;

• Creating, establishing and maintaining the UK IMS policy and objectives
• Ensuring that we conform to the requirements of International Standards and Regulations by creating annual audit schedules, ensuring non-conformance trends are identified and communicated to the business
• Ensuring integrity is maintained when changes are being planned and processes are adhered to
• Leadership of the team by conducting performance reviews, 1:2:1s, creating and managing development plans
• Leading and hosting regulatory and standard audits across the business
• Provide training and coaching for Compliance processes, ensuring the importance of our objectives are effectively communicated throughout the business

About you:
You’ll have strong background in Quality Compliance with exposure to the relevant QMS/IMS approvals listed above. You’ll be able to effectively lead and motivate the importance of the QMS/IMS function throughout the business. You’ll be a natural leader with previous experience in managing compliance teams. It’s essential that you have experience working with AS9100 standards and ideally you will have worked in an Aerospace environment previously.
You’ll also need to be comfortable with regular travel (up to 60%), some travel will be international as required. This is an onsite role, so you must be in commutable distance to our Staverton and Bishops Cleeve office.
Benefits:
At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.

Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.
Our values

Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you’ll enjoy a career with us

Please refer the Job description for details