Head of Quality

Infinitesima•Abingdon, IL

6d•£65,000 - £85,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Head of Quality is critical to enabling sustainable growth, protecting our brand, and ensuring we deliver world-class metrology systems that meet the demanding requirements of advanced materials science, nanotechnology, and semiconductor applications. This role involves establishing a robust, scalable Quality Management System (QMS) to support precision instrument manufacturing to the highest standards of reliability and performance, ensuring quality principles are adopted across the enterprise, and regularly interfacing with commercial, engineering, and operational teams.

Requirements

Quality leadership, with a focus on building trusted relationships and clear, thoughtful communication with stakeholders; comfortable sharing updates at executive level
At least 3 years leading a Quality function
Comfortable in low volume, high value, complex optomechanical manufacturing environments, especially during scaleup
Remaining grounded and composed in fast moving settings, applying balanced, considerate judgement
Understanding growth through start-up, scaleup and mature enterprise systems, and guiding that evolution
Developing the QMS in high growth environments, ensuring it remains supportive and scalable
Working collaboratively across the value chain
A strong sense of ownership, encouraging shared accountability across Operations and cross-functional teams
Choosing solutions that serve the bigger picture rather than one department

Nice To Haves

Experience leading a quality function within the Semiconductor field

Responsibilities

Owning the entire Quality function, leading with cross-team influence
Defining and delivering a quality strategy that powers growth and embedding quality as a non-negotiable part of the company’s DNA
Ownership of documentation control and internal audits
Leading all certification activities and ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance
Partnering with Engineering to bake ISO9001 principles into product development
Putting strong, structured risk management practices front and centre
Building a dependable change management process with Engineering and NPI
Guiding the Supply Chain team in creating robust supplier qualification and audit programmes
Setting up inspection processes that scale effectively with demand
Supporting supplier corrective actions and pushing for continuous improvements
Leading nonconformance management, CAPA and root-cause investigations
Developing inspection, calibration and quality processes to reduce production risk and building tight feedback loops with Customer Support and Product