Lead and drive quality management and assurance, ensuring robust standards, consistent processes and compliance across engineering and project delivery activities.
Opportunity Overview
Take the lead in establishing and implementing a consistent, structured quality management framework that promotes best practice, drives continuous improvement and ensures quality is embedded throughout every stage of project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Quality Management: Establish and implement effective quality management arrangements, ensuring clear standards and accountability across all activities.
- Planning & Procedures: Develop, maintain and implement quality plans, procedures and processes aligned with project requirements and applicable standards.
- Audits & Assurance: Lead quality audits, assurance reviews and compliance activities to identify risks, address gaps and drive continuous improvement.
- Performance & Compliance: Monitor quality performance, track key metrics and ensure compliance with relevant requirements, standards and procedures.
- Engineering & Delivery: Coordinate quality activities across engineering, construction and project delivery teams to ensure a consistent approach throughout the project lifecycle.
- Quality Records & Handover: Oversee quality documentation, records and handover deliverables, ensuring information is accurate, complete and readily available.
- Corrective Actions: Manage non-conformances, corrective actions and improvement initiatives, ensuring issues are resolved effectively and lessons learned are captured.
- Mobilisation Readiness: Support mobilisation activities by ensuring quality plans, processes, documentation and assurance arrangements are in place and ready for delivery.
Qualifications
- Education & Qualifications: A relevant STEM degree (minimum 2:2) or equivalent qualifications and demonstrable professional experience.
- Professional Accreditation: CQI Diploma and membership of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) or another relevant professional body, as specified in the SQEP schedule.
- Quality Experience: Typically 10 years' experience in quality management and assurance, with a strong track record of delivering effective quality outcomes.
- Leadership & Expertise: Proven leadership capability, supported by strong subject-matter expertise and the ability to influence stakeholders and drive quality standards across teams.
- Regulated Engineering: Demonstrable experience working within regulated engineering environments, with a sound understanding of quality requirements, compliance and assurance processes.
- Continuous Improvement & Auditing: Strong capability in quality auditing, identifying improvement opportunities, managing non-conformances and implementing effective corrective actions to enhance performance and compliance.
Company Description
Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.
These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.
We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people's ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.
Summary
- Summary Type: Full-time
- Function: Engineering
- Experience level: Not Applicable
- Industry: Electrical And Electronic Manufacturing
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Quality Manager in Olney employer: Assystem UK Ltd
Assystem is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment where innovation thrives, particularly in the Defence Infrastructure sector. With a competitive benefits package that includes generous annual leave, robust pension contributions, and comprehensive health support, employees are empowered to achieve a healthy work-life balance. The company's commitment to flexible working arrangements, alongside opportunities for professional growth and development, makes it an attractive choice for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers in a leading nuclear engineering firm.
