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Got gas? With no embarrassment, Luxfer Gas Cylinders has. The company makes aluminum and composite high-pressure gas cylinders. Its lineup offers compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicles, CO2 and mixed-gas cylinders for beverages, extinguishers for fire, as well as life-support cylinders for medical and recreational scuba markets, and paintball cylinders for players. Luxfer's manufacturing process uses hydraulic rams to shape aluminum billets into hollow shells, which are closed and threaded. The seamless, lightweight results are ideal for high-pressure storage of gases. Luxfer, part of UK-based Luxfer Holdings, operates plants in the US and UK, France, and China, serving customers in more than 50 countries. The company has responded to the challenges of the economic downturn through an internal restructuring and facility expansion. Among its targets, Luxfer aims to court new market opportunities for lightweight CNG cylinders, used in passenger cars, and increasingly in heavy duty natural gas vehicles. Fuel tank weight is critical for commercial businesses, notably in CNG countries like Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Along those lines, in mid-2012 parent Luxfer Holdings agreed to acquire CNG and other fuel cylinder maker Dynetek, which has factories in Germany and Canada. Luxfer is making headway by developing relationships with AFV Fleet Service/FAB Industries, BAF Technologies, Enviromech Industries, Omnitek Engineering, Paccar Inc., and World CNG. In 2010 Luxfer opened a fuel system assembly plant in Italy, the Luxfer European Alternative Fuel Centre. The Centre, a joint venture with Enviromech, opens the door to customers rapidly adopting CNG technologies. In Latin America, Luxfer inked a distribution deal to enter Peru with Omnitek, a natural gas vehicle equipment specialist. Production of the CNG cylinders and liners is centered in Luxfer's Riverside, California, facility, a facility that gained from Luxfer's move in 2008 to consolidate its manufacturing operations. All aluminum cylinder manufacturing was moved from Riverside, California, to plants in Graham, North Carolina, and Nottingham, the UK. Composite cylinder operations were merged in Riverside, along with large-diameter composite liner manufacturing, moved from Huntington Beach, California. The restructuring revamped Riverside, but eliminated 140 jobs or more than 10% of Luxfer's workforce. Luxfer also pursues recreational markets. The company touts the world's widest range of aluminum and carbon-composite paintball cylinders. Luxfer Gas Cylinders is a leading global supplier of lightweight, high-pressure composite cylinders for storage and transportation of compressed natural gas (CNG), a clean-burning, environmentally friendly alternative fuel. Luxfer alternative fuel cylinders are also used for storage of bio-methane, hydrogen and other industrial bulk gases and are being used in more than 10,000 bus systems and 4,500 refuse trucks around the world. What will this role of Quality Assurance Manager (Alternative Fuel) entail? As the Quality Assurance Manager, you’ll develop, implement and manage all aspects of the Quality Management System within the Alternative Fuel department. Ensuring we fully comply with all relevant regulations, including but not limited to, IATF:16949 and ISO 9001:2015. You will also be responsible for undertaking both internal and external audits as required. You will work closely with other members of the AF management team to ensure that processes and products made are consistent, compliant and meet internal and external quality standards. You’ll manage all aspects of the PPAP process, including control plans, DFMEA’s and PFMEA’s. Acting as the Alternative Fuel representative to regulatory bodies, third party auditors, our customer base, suppliers and key internal contacts. You will be responsible for providing accurate technical knowledge in the form of written reports, 8D’s and presentations as required. With a history dating back to 1898, we operate facilities internationally, with more than 50 million Luxfer cylinders in service. We pride ourselves on an exemplary record for dependable service and safety. Our high-pressure aluminum and composite gas cylinders are used in a wide and growing variety of applications - such as life support, alternative fuel, medical, industrial, beverage, fire extinguishers, aerospace, inflation, scuba and performance racing. We are an innovative technology driven business where Customer First, Integrity, Accountability, Innovation, Personal Development and Teamwork are our core values. At Luxfer we are passionate about what we do; the products we develop and manufacture and our long-term partnership with our customers. All applications for this Quality Assurance Manager (Alternative Fuel) vacancy are to be submitted online, and strictly no agency calls or agency CV submissions. As part of any recruitment process, the organization collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The organization is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations. You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide data to the organization during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, the organization may not be able to process your application properly or at all. If your application is successful, it will be a condition of any job offer that you provide evidence of your right to work in the UK and satisfactory references. You are under no obligation to provide information for equal opportunities monitoring purposes and there are no consequences for your application if you choose not to provide such information.