Regional Quality Lead in Glasgow

Overview: Regional Quality Manager – Civil Engineering: Rail / Highways / Aviation / Renewable Energy / Flood Alleviation. Regions: Scotland. Office Location: Cumbernauld, with involvement at multiple locations to support regional teams.

What We Offer:

• Competitive annual salary, negotiable based on experience
• Company car or car allowance
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Up to 3 volunteer days
• Company contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance coverage
• Westfield Health Cash Plan and Rewards program
• Emphasis on personal and professional development and career advancement
• Continuous learning opportunities within a safe working environment
• Internal development programmes dedicated to supporting the development of our colleagues and future business leaders including Purposeful Leadership, Women in leadership and much more
• Employee forums for sharing and voicing ideas

About the Role:

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Quality Manager to join our growing SHEQ team. In this crucial position, you will lead and deploy a programme to achieve a right first time approach, ensuring all projects within the Scotland region adhere to our business systems controls and processes and drive the right culture and behaviours for continuous improvement. This role requires regional leadership and expertise in deploying sustainable quality and operational excellence. You will work collaboratively across AmcoGiffen to implement a quality toolkit that fosters the right quality behaviours and facilitates effective change management. Your objective will be to promote smarter working practices by enhancing quality and efficiencies, ensuring projects are delivered to the right specification, on time, reducing costs and underpinning AmcoGiffen’s safe working practices.

Requirements:

To thrive in this role, you should have previous experience as a Project Quality Engineer or Manager, operating in civil engineering projects. Candidates from other sectors such as Oil & Gas and Defence that can demonstrate transferable skills and experience are encouraged to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

• SHEQ Strategy Deployment: Support the implementation of the SHEQ Strategy and Quality Management Strategy within the region
• Quality Readiness Reviews: Facilitate and lead Quality Readiness reviews prior to projects commencing on site alongside PMs, Site Agents, and Project Teams
• Risk Based Quality Planning: Work with the project team to develop risk based quality plans, including assessment and mitigation of quality risks
• BMS Compliance: Ensure adherence to the Business Management System (BMS) in your region
• Quality Procedures Development: Create and develop quality-specific procedures and tools aligned with business and industry standards
• Project Support: Be proactively available to support projects, ensuring the implementation of Quality governance
• Assurance Planning: Assist project teams during the planning phase to develop assurance plans that comply with the BMS throughout the project lifecycle
• Deep Dive Audits: Assess quality maturity by conducting deep dive audits in compliance with the AmcoGiffen Audits and Inspections Procedure
• Strategic Quality: Contribute to AmcoGiffen’s SHEQ Strategy programme streams to enhance the ISO certified Management System to ISO 9004: Achieving Sustained Success
• Training and Awareness: Support the identification and delivery of quality training to instil a quality culture across the organization
• Performance Monitoring: Track leading and lagging quality performance indicators to identify trends and improvement areas
• Problem Solving: Lead problem identification and resolution activities identified through assurance checks
• External Assurance Support: Assist with external quality assurance activities and supply chain assurance
• Knowledge Sharing: Capture and disseminate key learnings and benefits across other regions
• Engagement and Representation: Collaborate with management and engineering teams on quality initiatives and represent Amco Giffen at relevant client forums
• Tendering Support: Provide quality insights and information for tendering activities as requested
• Collaboration for Improvement: Work jointly to enhance performance and reduce costs associated with poor quality
• Quality Reporting: Produce periodic quality reports as per internal and client requirements, giving visibility of project quality performance.

Essential:

• Proven experience in a Quality/Engineering role
• Membership in the Chartered Quality Institute (or working towards this)
• Sound understanding of Project Delivery and Engineering processes, procedures documentation
• Hands-on experience with Integrated Management Systems
• Understand and report Quality performance measurement and analysis
• Familiarity with core quality tools (5 Whys, 8D, FMEA, APQP, Lean Principles)
• Certified Lead Auditor (ISO 9001:2015)
• Apply a risk based approach to manage the portfolio of works, aligned to the quality strategy
• Designing, developing or facilitating Quality topics including Induction and Awareness modules
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Full UK Driving Licence

Desirable:

• NEBOSH certificate or equivalent
• HNC in Engineering/Construction
• Degree in Engineering or related fields
• PTS (Personal Track Safety) certification

If you are an experienced quality assurance professional seeking a challenging and rewarding opportunity, we invite you to apply and join our dynamic team dedicated to excellence in quality and operational performance.

The Company:

Why AmcoGiffen? You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit. AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen: We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent. We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation. Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork. AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.

Health & Wellbeing: Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.

Is AmcoGiffen your next career challenge? If so, apply now! For more information or to arrange a private and confidential discussion about AmcoGiffen career opportunities, please contact our Recruitment Team: tom.peach@amcogiffen.co.uk Recruitment Manager.

The Benefits: We offer excellent career prospects, a competitive salary, and outstanding training development and support opportunities. You can expect to receive a range of benefits (role dependent) including: Contributory pension scheme, Life assurance, Westfield health scheme, Minimum 25 days' holiday, Private medical insurance.