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Defence Client
- RFQ No: Softtestpays-D 31 Quality Manager L3.
- Contract start ASAP To 12 months, possible extensions.
The LAND 200-3 Quality Manager is responsible for:
- Accomplishing quality management objectives, as agreed with the Project Office Team Manager by monitoring, reviewing, and enforcing policies and procedures.
- Delivering quality management outcomes that comply with relevant legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks.
- Coaching and mentoring relevant project areas in their quality management responsibilities and accountabilities.
- Training and motivating employees to ensure that quality standards are met.
- Applying knowledge of relevant legislation, standards and Defence policies and procedures to ensure that any analysis is relevant in the quality assurance context.
- Contributing quality management expertise to strategic planning, program and project management or policy development for the project, providing advice on quality innovation and improvement.
- Working individually or collaboratively to develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
- Effectively communicating insights derived from analysis to support decision making.
- Resolving problems and taking the initiative to identify alternative courses of action.
- Working collaboratively, developing and maintaining beneficial, effective relationships with the customer, colleagues and other stakeholders.
- The position reports to the Project Office Manager, and provides subject matter support to the Project Director, Project Managers and the Commercial Manager.
Experience/Skills Sought
- As the Quality Manager you are a business management professional who works effectively in a complex environment, thinks critically, and applies problem-solving skills. You will manage competing priorities with a focus on mitigating risks for acquisition and adoption of new technologies in a challenging workplace.
- You are highly organised, energetic, self-motivated, able to work with limited guidance and are outcome orientated with excellent communication skills.
- The successful candidate must ideally be able to demonstrate:
- Previous or current experience in a quality management role in a Department of Defence or defence industry environment.
- The ability to ensure ongoing compliance in support of the CASG ISO 9001:2015 certification.
- Experience working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team including building team capability through coaching, feedback and developing the quality of work undertaken by others within a work unit.
- Experience working within a project or business team, implementing and using standard procedures and practices to:
- Implement and operate/supervise a lessons learned scheme to inform and educate project team members and where appropriate, wider audiences.
- Implement and operate/supervise a continuous improvement scheme to drive the introduction of a quality improvement culture.
- Develop and document business processes using a recognised business process methodology such as Integration Definition (IDEF) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN).
- Develop and execute an internal audit plan as part of the introduction of a continuous improvement culture.
- Ability to draft and prepare briefs, complex correspondence, reports and submissions for board/committee consideration on project status in accordance with organisational requirements.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative, creativity and responsibility to help create a controllable environment for a complex integration project with limited guidance.
- Experience working in complex and challenging environments with a complex system of stakeholders.
- Ability to prepare quality documentation and reports by collecting, analysing, and summarising information and trends.
- Ability to analyse, design, plan, execute, and evaluate work to time, cost and quality targets while assessing and evaluating risk.
- Highly effective, formal and informal communication skills including advanced technical writing skills.
Required Skills:
- Briefs
- Adoption
- Legislation
- Quality Management
- Lessons
- Analysis
- Assurance
- Internal Audit
- Business Process
- Continuous Improvement
- Mentoring
- Business Management
- Quality Assurance
- Coaching
- Strategic Planning
- Writing
- Integration
- Documentation
- Project Management
- Planning
- Design
- Communication
- Business Training
- Management
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