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Product Assurance Lead | Rolling Stock / Rail Industry Location | Lowry Park, Manchester (role suited to candidates motivated by challenge, impact, and long-term career growth) About the Opportunity A newly created Product Assurance Lead position is now available within a major rolling stock organisation. This is a rare chance to shape and govern product quality across multiple fleets, depots, and engineering projects. If you thrive on building structure where none exists and enjoy influencing technical and operational teams, this role offers a meaningful platform to make your mark. Role Purpose The Product Assurance Lead will centralise and oversee product quality processes across all projects, ensuring technical standards and quality requirements are consistently applied, validated, and continuously improved. Key Responsibilities Defect management and product safety investigationsGovernance of quality assurance processes beyond ISO 9001Continuous improvement through audits, trend analysis, and trainingActing as the central point for quality governance across depots and projects Key Deliverables Implement a centralised product quality governance frameworkEstablish defect management and incident investigation processesConduct cross-fleet defect trend analysisDevelop and embed product safety and quality management systemsDeliver quality-focused training programmesSupport audits and continuous improvement initiatives Skills & Experience Strong engineering background (mandatory)ISO 9001 auditing/quality systems experience (desirable)Analytical capability for data collation and trend analysisAbility to influence and engage technical and operational stakeholders<li