Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Wavin – an Orbia business where our purpose to advance life around the world drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting our world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. How about you?

At Wavin, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The very places we live in: our cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join forces with us, join our team, and help build more sustainable environments! 

We want to build a team of people with purpose. That’s why Wavin is currently looking for a Site Quality Leader to join our team at Chippenham. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

Reporting to the Multi-plants Quality Manager, the Site Quality Leader will work on-site at our Chippenham site working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday. As the Site Quality Leader you will be responsible for ensuring development and proper application & deployment of quality activities and internal/external quality standards within the plant, working closely with relevant B&I stakeholders, suppliers, and customers to support operations delivering products and services right first time. The focus of this role is the direct responsibility of the plant quality organisation and plant quality performance, the quality activities and quality standard processes application within the whole plant value chain, the internal and external plant quality representation, the applicable products and processes quality standards and certification compliance, the management and improvement of the quality management system, and the efficient management of quality issues and associated improvements.

The main duties and responsibilities of your role are to:

• Safety compliance for all quality related activities. Demonstrate active leadership for whole plant safety compliance and improvement.
• Leading Overall Quality plant management (Quality team management 5 persons, competence management, recruit, budget, capex, Q processes application).
• Plant Quality Representative (Plant management reviews, feedback/feedforward with team, Quality strategic plan, Quality KPIs monitoring (Cost of Poor Quality, CPPM, SPPM, internal defects, Claims, audits CAR/PAR).
• Internal and external audits/certification management (Products) + relevant certificate(s).
• ISO 9001 and Plant QMS (Process & internal – external audits) management.
• Management and improvement of the Quality Laboratories processes and activities, including accredited laboraties as appropriate.
• Quality inputs for relevant projects/products development.
• Quality and Control plan creation and implementation for new products/transferred products (including PFMEA realisation).
• Systematic application and improvement of Quality activities in the plant (First part right, Capability management, hydra application, SPC monitoring, defect dictionary, QES maturity improvement, Quality KPIs monitoring and improvement, global quality processes, 8D).
• Quality claims management and associated root cause analysis (8D/RCA).
• Supplier quality performance monitoring/coordination.
• Coaching site for proper deployment and usage of Quality and continuous improvement fundamentals: PDCA, Routines, escalations, Problems solving (8D/RCA), 5S, SMED, TPM, idea management (including best practices), support to Engineering Change Request & local product development implementation/industrialisation activity.
• Work closely with plant CI leaders & plant managers to ensure CI standards implementation through coaching, training and project delivery support.

To be successful in the role you will have:

• Master Engineering degree or equivalent
• Typically, 3-5 years of experience in relevant role
• Profound knowledge and experience of quality standards and quality checks.
• Profound knowledge of our products and their acceptance criteria.
• Profound knowledge and experience Quality methodologies (quality assurance and quality controls)
• Minimum 5 years of experience postgraduate
• Site quality or lab responsibility experience (ISO auditor preferred)
• Problem-solving experience (6 Sigma green belt or equivalent preferred)
• International working experience in an industrial organisation

Wavin offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Wavin! At Wavin, we encourage all our employees to develop their talent and to become the best version of themselves with great innovative programs. Here, we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Wavin is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organisation

Orbia’s Building and Infrastructure business Wavin is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, Wavin is advancing life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Wavin collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Wavin has 12,000+ employees around 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network.

Wavin is a business of Orbia. A company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in the Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluorinated Solutions (Koura) sectors. The five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has commercial activities in more than 110 countries and operations in over 50, with global headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $9.6 billion in revenue in 2022.

Contact us

If you have questions or you want to know more about the position, please contact our People Team via HR.UK@wavin.com. To apply, use the apply-button.

Acquisition based on this vacancy is not appreciated and unsolicited applications from third parties will not be accepted.