Quality Manager (Heavy Engineering - ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor.) - Roodepoort at MECS (Pty) Ltd

• Own the quality system for the company, not for one tender. Every job — motor, pump, valve, site install or outage package — is planned, inspected, recorded and released against an approved QCP and the current ISO 9001:2015 system. Quality is visible on the floor and on site, not only in the file.
• Reports to General Manager (independent of Production and Engineering output)
• Works with Engineering, Production, project managers, clients and third-party inspectors
• Scope QMS for workshop and site work across all sectors and contracts.
• Employment Permanent, full time. Client witness points and factory assessments as required.

Minimum requirements

• National Diploma / BTech in Quality, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a trade-plus-quality path with proven industrial experience.
• Five years’ quality in a workshop, fabrication, OEM or multi-site industrial environment. At least some rotating-machines or heavy mechanical exposure.
• Able to write a populated QCP / ITP with acceptance criteria, records and H / W / R / S points.
• ISO 9001 working knowledge. Computer literate. English for client and assessment work. Valid driver’s licence.
• ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor.
• Utility, mining or rail factory-assessment experience.

Accountabilities
System

• Maintain ISO 9001:2015 and extend the same discipline to all product lines the certificate does not yet name.
• Issue QCPs / ITPs, method-statement quality content, the authorisation matrix and the quality-file index before work starts.
• Agree hold, witness, review and surveillance points with Engineering, Production and the client. Typical holds: approved assessment before repair; winding / critical assembly; pre-impregnation or equivalent process hold; final test and databook / handover.

In-process and release

• Inspect at the point of work. Records are live. Backfilled or pre-signed packs are a disciplinary quality failure.
• Control material certificates, calibration, quarantine and NCRs across copper, insulation, bearings, mechanical parts and site-bought material.
• Nothing dispatches or hands over without a complete databook, closed holds and a release note that matches the physical job.

Clients, audits and tenders

• Host factory assessments and third-party inspections across sectors.
• Supply completed QCP examples, calibration evidence and quality appointment letters for bids. Do not recycle another contract’s letter.
• Investigate warranty and in-service failures. The finding changes the standard, not only the credit note.
• Run workshop and site walks: WIP trace-back, reverse trace, signature timeline, calibration trap, dispatch gate.

Authority

• Stop work and stop dispatch / handover on any YNF job.
• Quarantine product, material and instruments. Raise and close NCRs. Concessions only with Engineering and, where required, the client and GM.