Job Description
Salary circa 55,000+ 33 days annual leave Flexible working hours
A well-established manufacturing business is seeking a Compliance Manager to take ownership of site-wide compliance, auditing, and governance within a fast-paced, operational environment. This is a hands-on, visible role suited to someone who enjoys being on the shopfloor, engaging with teams, and ensuring issues are properly closed out rather than simply recorded.
With a strong order book and a stable long-term outlook, the business offers an environment where compliance is taken seriously, audits are frequent, and continuous improvement is actively encouraged.
Compliance Manager Overview:
Reporting into senior leadership, you'll be responsible for supervising and guiding compliance activity across the site, leading higher-level system audits, and ensuring non-conformances and audit findings are effectively managed through to closure. The role is audit-heavy and people-facing, requiring strong engagement with operators, team leaders, and senior management.
Compliance Manager responsibilities include:
A well-established manufacturing business is seeking a Compliance Manager to take ownership of site-wide compliance, auditing, and governance within a fast-paced, operational environment. This is a hands-on, visible role suited to someone who enjoys being on the shopfloor, engaging with teams, and ensuring issues are properly closed out rather than simply recorded.
With a strong order book and a stable long-term outlook, the business offers an environment where compliance is taken seriously, audits are frequent, and continuous improvement is actively encouraged.
Compliance Manager Overview:
Reporting into senior leadership, you'll be responsible for supervising and guiding compliance activity across the site, leading higher-level system audits, and ensuring non-conformances and audit findings are effectively managed through to closure. The role is audit-heavy and people-facing, requiring strong engagement with operators, team leaders, and senior management.
Compliance Manager responsibilities include:
- Closing out compliance issues and ensuring corrective actions are completed effectively.
- Supervising and guiding staff on compliance, procedures, and best practice.
- Reviewing, improving, and maintaining work instructions and SOPs.
- Leading internal audits and coordinating a high volume of external audits.
- Managing non-conformance logs and ensuring 8D submissions are completed on time.
- Monitoring and tracking 8D activity, supporting production teams rather than owning problem-solving.
- Conducting deep, system-level audits through discussion and observation, not tick-box exercises.
- Engaging with senior management on audit outcomes, risks, and improvement actions.
- Experience in a Compliance or Quality focused role.
- Trained across ISO 9001 / IATF 16949 / AS9100 and/or UK CAA Part 21J, 21G & Part 145 / EASA Part 145
- Strong background in auditing within a manufacturing or operational environment.
- Comfortable overseeing NCRs and 8D activity without owning root cause analysis.
- Confident engaging with shopfloor teams, team leaders, and senior management.
- Able to work with data, trends, and basic systems (Excel etc).
- Salary circa 55,000+
- 33 days annual leave
- Sociable working hours and flexi-time.
- Option to work from home.
- Training and progression opportunities.
- Stable, well-established manufacturing business
- High-visibility role with direct access to senior leadership.
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