Experienced Quality Assurance Specialist with a long history of working in the Aerospace, Defence and Manufacturing industries. Skilled in all aspects of Quality Management, Business Processes, Product Quality, Root Cause Analysis, Continuous Improvement and Lean. Worked extensively with ISO 9001, AS9100 and AS9102
Freelance Quality Engineer and ISO 9001 Specialist
Hi, I’m Stuart Templeton and for the last 20 years I’ve been working as a Quality Assurance professional for major worldwide defence, aerospace and high-tech manufacturing companies such as Thales, Lockheed Martin, B/E Aerospace and Cobham.
During the course of my career, I’ve helped these organisations achieve ISO certification, document and improve their business processes, manufacture to often exceedingly high quality and safety critical requirements and to ensure that their products and services are maintained to the highest standards.
Along the way I’ve helped many companies obtain their ISO 9001 certifications and I now specialise in developing simple yet effective Quality Management Systems for small businesses, tailored to their needs and requirements.
I’m a big believer in keeping things simple.
The following are some examples of work
I can offer:
- Developing or improving Quality Management Systems to ISO 9001:2015
- Part time management of Quality Management Systems.
- Business Process documentation and flowcharts
- Internal audits
- Key Performance Indicators (or Metrics)
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Methods of Manufacture
- Product requirements Specifications
- Manuals and Technical Documentation
I also make a great cup of tea!
If you’d like to know more about obtaining
ISO 9001, or have any questions about my services, please drop me a line via my
Contact Page to arrange a FREE Skype or Telephone consultation.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Here are some of my testimonials
”Stuart is professional and experienced and is a great advocate for quality. He takes his responsibilities seriously and also is able to inject humour where necessary. He has a good mix of innovation, challenge and review styles which gives an all-round quality focus to his work. He’s happy to challenge poor quality where it exists and assist in finding and fixing root causes.”
Bob Goodwin CQP MCQI MSc PGDip
”Stuart has brought his considerable experience to bear on working to resolve a variety of complex problems. Many of these associated with a transition to agile methodologies and outsourced manufacturing. Stuart is a strong and vocal advocate for quality standards that not only meet business needs but also deliver business value too. In my opinion, he is willing in that respect, to stand up, step forward and be counted. Stuart has developed and implemented many processes; tools and systems that he has personally devised that have helped improve assurance activities and reporting”
Lee Jones, Thales e-security
”Stuart is a champion of best practise and adding value in a business. I worked with him on a day-to-day basis during my time with Lockheed Martin UK and thoroughly enjoyed the professional relationship we shared. He brought a wealth of experience to his role of Senior Quality Engineer from his time in Defence and Commercial Aerospace and the best practise that comes in that safety critical environment. At all times I found Stuart to be reliable, dependable and professional”
Peter Boyce, Lockheed Martin UK
”If you cut Stuart open, he’d have the word Quality running through him like a stick of rock!”
Graeme Forsyth, Quality Manager, Lockheed Martin UK
Stuart Templeton 