Synnovate
QMS Lead
Job Description
Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements:- Proven experience building or rebuilding a QMS/IMS from scratch
- Strong working knowledge of integrated management system frameworks spanning quality, business, and safety processes
- A genuine self-starter, comfortable defining priorities and driving initiatives independently
- Strong document control, structuring, and process-mapping skills
- Confident engaging stakeholders at all levels to gather buy-in and information
- Based in or able to relocate to the Aberdeen area
- Rebuild the Integrated Management System (IMS) from the ground up
- Pull together fragmented documentation, processes, and ways of working into a single, structured, audit-ready system
- Pull together existing documentation from across the business and assess what is fit for purpose and what needs reworking
- Implement document meta-tagging and version control to improve order and traceability
- Identify, standardise, and embed best-practice processes across the organisation
- Drive a pipeline of quality and process improvement initiatives
- Work closely with stakeholders across Business, Safety, and Operations to ensure the system reflects how the business actually works
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We are seeking an experienced QMS Lead to take ownership of building and rebuilding our Integrated Management System, bringing together Business, Safety, and Quality Management processes into one coherent, well-governed framework. This is a hands-on, build-from-scratch role for someone who knows what good looks like in quality management systems and is comfortable rolling up their sleeves to get there. The role is full-time on-site in Aberdeen, five days a week, with periodic travel to other sites. It is a 2-year fixed-term contract with a salary of £50,000 - £60,000 DOE.
last updated 34 week of 2026
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Synnovate
Aberdeen
IT
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£85,000
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This salary is 35% below the UK median for Lead roles (£85,000/yr).
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