Quality Improvement Lead

Quality Improvement Lead (This role is known internally as Quality Manager)
Beenham, Berkshire
Salary upto 45,000 depending upon experience
Monday to Friday - 8am - 5pm - 37.5 Hours per week

At Marley, we're raising the roof in the UK roofing industry! Join us on our mission to advance the roofing industry through next level designs, products, and manufacturing processes. Marley is at the forefront of pitched roof systems, leading the pack in sustainability and innovation. With a century of know-how under our belt, we're the trusted partners for architects, contractors, and roofing professionals.

To support Marley's ambitious growth plans, we are seeking to appoint a Quality Improvement Lead in a newly created, strategically significant role. Reporting to the SHEQ Compliance Lead, this position will play a pivotal role in strengthening our quality framework and enhancing the performance, compliance, and durability of our products across the full manufacturing lifecycle at our concrete roof tile manufacturing facility in Beenham.

This is a highly visible, hands-on role within a complex concrete manufacturing environment. It requires a strong technical understanding of cement-based materials, process stability, and industrial quality control. The successful candidate will be instrumental in elevating product performance, strengthening governance, and ensuring Marley's concrete roof tiles consistently meet the highest standards of strength, durability, dimensional accuracy, and customer satisfaction.

The Mission
As Quality Improvement Lead, you will shape and deliver a robust, concrete-manufacturing-focused quality strategy that reflects the technical demands of cement-based production. Operating within a high-volume, process-driven environment, you will ensure:

• A safe, compliant, and environmentally responsible manufacturing operation
• Full adherence to internal standards, customer specifications, and industry regulations governing concrete products
• Right-first-time performance from raw material batching and mixing through forming, curing, coating, and final despatch
• This role is central to embedding a prevention-led quality culture within a heavy manufacturing setting, where material consistency, process control, curing conditions, dimensional accuracy, and product durability are critical
• You will take ownership of the Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring it is practical on the shop floor, audit-ready, and aligned with best practice in concrete production and industrial manufacturing

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve quality systems tailored to concrete batching, forming, curing, and finishing processes
• Drive process control and material performance standards across aggregates, cement, pigments, admixtures, and coatings
• Lead and develop the site quality team, setting clear performance expectations within a production-focused environment
• Oversee laboratory testing, in-process inspections, and finished product validation to ensure structural integrity and compliance
• Apply root cause analysis and corrective/preventive action methodologies to address process variation, defects, and durability issues
• Manage internal and external audits, ensuring full regulatory and product certification compliance
• Analyse quality and production data to improve yield, reduce waste, and enhance product consistency
• Champion defect prevention and operational excellence across a heavy, automated manufacturing setting
• Embed a culture of ownership and continuous improvement at every stage of concrete roof tile production
  

What's in it for you?
This is a great opportunity to take the next step in progressing your career and joining our industry-leading company! We offer a competitive salary, professional development and benefits.

Benefits include:

• Health care cash plan - support with Dental, Optical, Prescription costs and many more!
• Guaranteed Christmas holidays
• Development opportunities
• 37.5 hours Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
• 26 Holidays + bank holidays
• Company Pension up to 15% (5% Employee, 10% Employer)
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Employee discount programme
• Refer a friend scheme
• Employee Assistance programme - Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing support
• Free onsite parking

More about Marley and Marshalls:
Our operations are organised into three distinct divisions: Marshalls Landscape Products, Marshalls Building Products, and Marley Roofing Products.

At Marley Roofing Products, we are recognised as leaders in the manufacturing and supply of pitched roofing systems. Our product range includes clay and concrete tiles, timber battens, roof-integrated solar solutions, and various roofing accessories. Although divisional, we work as one Marshalls team. To find out more about Marshalls please visit our website: (url removed)

Equal Opportunities
Whoever you are and whatever your background, you'll find a fair and supportive workplace. You're unique and we want you to bring every part of who you are to work, every day.

We're committed to ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. To us, this is more than a legal, moral, or ethical necessity - it's the right thing to do!

We want our team to reflect the diverse nature of society and the communities we serve. Marshalls plc is a workplace where you're valued for the contribution you make, and where you can grow and develop by being entirely yourself!

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