Compliance Manager

Compliance Manager (Quality & Compliance)

Organisation Overview

Our client operates in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment, delivering technical services and innovative solutions where quality, assurance, and governance are central to day-to-day delivery. The business is growth-oriented, collaborative, and process-led, with a strong emphasis on audit readiness, robust documentation, and continuous improvement.

Role Summary

Due to continued growth, our client is hiring a Compliance Manager to own and strengthen the organisation’s quality and compliance framework. This is a hands-on, operationally embedded role – responsible for ensuring management systems are designed, implemented, evidenced, audited, and continually improved. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive consistency, traceability, and “right-first-time” delivery across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the integrated management system (including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001)
• Maintain an audit-ready framework: document control, obligations tracking, compliance calendar, action tracking
• Plan and deliver internal audit programmes, support external audits, and manage evidence packs
• Lead non-conformance management, corrective/preventative actions, and effectiveness verification/closure
• Monitor regulatory & standards changes, assess impact, and coordinate compliant implementation
• Drive a culture of quality, compliance, and continuous improvement through pragmatic engagement and training
• Provide clear reporting on themes, trends, risks, actions, and performance metrics to leadership forums

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong track record owning or leading quality / compliance / assurance in a regulated environment
• Practical working knowledge of ISO 9001 (and ideally ISO 14001 / ISO 45001)
• Confident running internal audits, supporting external audits, and managing audit findings to closure
• Excellent documentation discipline (policies, procedures, templates, registers, evidence)
• Able to influence stakeholders, challenge appropriately, and drive improvements without “paper-only” compliance
• Due to the nature of the business, SC clearance will be required.

If you’re a quality/compliance professional with a background in high-hazard, security cleared industries who enjoys owning systems end-to-end, building and improving them then please apply with your CV.