REQ ID: 128958
JOB TITLE: Quality & Compliance Senior Leader
SALARY: £48,685 - £54,000

POSTING START DATE: 21/05/2025

POSTING END DATE: 04/06/2025

LOCATION: Solihull  

Working in Manufacturing at JLR, you'll be the hands-on expert who brings innovation to life. You'll collaborate with a team of expert technicians and problem-solvers and use cutting-edge tools, facilities, and processes engineered together to build era-defining vehicles that people across the world know and love. Your expertise will directly impact the shaping of modern luxury. Together, let’s create the exceptional. 

As the Paint Quality & Compliance Senior Leader, you will be responsible for driving Paint Quality & Compliance activity through development and deployment of quality improvement action plans to improve FTT, Warranty and WCPA metrics and ensuring that Paint achieves QOS, UTAC and Company Quality audit compliance by engaging with the Paint Production, Paint OTA, Production Support and Maintenance teams.  

You will lead a muti faceted team responsible for industrial cleaning planning and supervision, VRT, painted panel damage reduction, safety and audit compliance. 

WHAT TO EXPECT

As part of the Quality & Compliance Senior Leader, you’ll be:

•    Lead the team to deliver against scorecard metrics for quality, compliance & safety.
•    Lead, support and coach projects to improve quality via process improvement, industrial cleaning and damage reduction.
•    Report out at senior reviews – PQR, VLQR and Technology Reviews
•    Lead the team to prepare for major audits such as UTAC.
•    Prepare and deliver responses to audit non-compliance demerits.
•    Own multiple purchased service contracts, being involved in the tender and negotiation process as well as securing funds through Star Chamber.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

•    Highly collaborative working style. Ability to shape strategic direction and enable implementation, while influencing at all levels of the business.
•    Ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.
•    Problem Solving ability and able to approach issues in a structured and methodical manner.
•    High level of organisation and flexibility of approach. Proactive approach to problem solving and decision making.
•    Strong business acumen - ability to build business cases, understanding the implications of key cost drivers including volumes, economic factors and business trends and market movements, drawing insights & providing guidance, focussing on the key issues.
•    The ability to lead and develop a diverse team.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs. 

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you’re unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role – but you're interested in where it could take you – we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people's ability to grow and develop within their role – it’s what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.