Quality Director in Bridgwater

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead Quality Excellence on One of Europe’s Most Complex Nuclear Construction Programmes.

At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Quality Director at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset. This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance works across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.

The role involves:

• Leading the quality strategy across the alliance, ensuring quality is fully integrated throughout project delivery.
• Driving consistency by aligning quality standards, processes, governance, and expectations across multiple alliance partners.
• Overseeing the production, verification, and timely acceptance of quality records and documentation.
• Building a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Providing strategic leadership on quality performance, risk management, regulatory compliance, and organisational capability development.

This role is full time, working 37 hours per week, and is based on-site at Hinkley Point C. Accommodation and travel expenses are paid.

Essential experience includes:

• Significant senior leadership experience in quality management within large-scale construction, infrastructure, engineering, energy, or nuclear environments.
• Proven success developing and implementing quality strategies within complex, highly regulated industries.
• Experience leading quality assurance, quality control, and documentation programmes throughout major project delivery lifecycles.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders, contractors, and delivery partners.
• Demonstrated success driving cultural change, continuous improvement, and high-performing quality teams.

Qualifications include:

• Lead Auditor qualification (ISO 9001 or equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of quality management systems and regulatory compliance frameworks.

Benefits include:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

We're Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together. We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.