Job Title: Senior Quality Controller
Location: Renfrewshire
Packaging: Competitive
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and proactive Senior Quality Controller to support and drive quality performance across our manufacturing operations. This is a hands-on, shop-floor-focused role responsible for ensuring quality standards are embedded throughout production, with a strong focus on right-first-time performance, process control, waste reduction, and preventing quality issues before they reach the customer.
You will be a key role model for quality standards, ensuring that quality remains at the heart of every decision and that products consistently meet internal and customer expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure high standards of product quality are maintained throughout the manufacturing process, meeting both internal requirements and customer expectations
- Act as a visible presence within the production environment, supporting teams to achieve consistent quality and first-time-right results
- Review quality performance data, identify areas for improvement, and support investigations into defects and recurring issues
- Complete quality inspections, audits, and compliance checks to ensure processes remain controlled and effective
- Partner with production teams to drive improvements that reduce waste, minimise rework, and improve overall efficiency
- Support manufacturing changes, trials, and new product activities by assessing potential quality risks and ensuring controls are in place
- Promote good quality practices across the workforce through guidance, support, and effective communication
- Share quality updates, improvement actions, and key issues with relevant teams and stakeholders
What We’re Looking For
- Previous experience within a quality, manufacturing, or production-focused environment
- A good understanding of quality processes, standards, specifications, and controls
- Experience contributing to audits, investigations, and improvement projects
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with the confidence to identify issues and support effective solutions
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence, engage, and support colleagues at all levels
- Comfortable reviewing quality information and using data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement
- A strong eye for detail with a commitment to maintaining high standards
- Ability to prioritise workloads effectively and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Confidence to challenge existing ways of working and encourage better practices
- Good IT capability with experience using systems and data to monitor and improve quality performance
Apply Now
If you are an experienced quality professional looking to make a real impact within a manufacturing environment, we would love to hear from you. Contact Diane Smedley – Nisbet to be considered for this role at dsmedley@hrcrecruitment.co.uk