Quality Manager

SP Energy Networks, Hamilton International Technology Park, Blantyre. G72 0HT

Salary from £66,000 with up to 20% Annual Bonus, Family Healthcare and Car Allowance

Permanent / Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days remote)

Closing Date: 2nd October 2026

Purpose

As Quality Manager, you will be accountable for leading quality management across SP Transmission’s (SPT) Core, Strategic and HVDC portfolios, ensuring quality requirements, risks and obligations are translated into clear controls, governance arrangements and consistent delivery across the full project lifecycle. You will be responsible for translating business, regulatory and quality management system requirements into practical strategies, plans, standards, procedures and assurance arrangements that can be embedded into business as usual.

Reporting to the Head of Quality, Environment and IMS, you will lead quality capability through Lead Quality Advisors and wider specialist quality roles, set functional priorities, allocate internal and external resources and provide management oversight of quality performance, compliance, assurance, supplier performance, escalation and continuous improvement. You will play a key part in translating functional direction into practical delivery arrangements that support RIIO-T3 objectives, major capital investment and wider business commitments.

Responsibilities

• Leading the Quality function within the Quality, Environment and IMS Department for SPT Transmission Services, you will set clear direction, priorities, standards and expectations for quality delivery across relevant projects and portfolios.
• You will provide leadership, management and development to Lead Quality Advisors, Quality Advisors and associated specialist roles, ensuring the team structure, capability, performance and resource model support current and future business requirements.
• Owning the development, implementation, governance and continuous improvement of the Quality Management Framework, determining functional standards, assurance arrangements, controls and priorities for adoption across SPT.
• Setting the functional approach to Quality Assurance, audit, inspection and non-conformance management, ensuring proportionate governance, robust escalation routes and effective follow-up of significant risks, trends and systemic issues.
• Working closely with the wider business, translating business priorities, regulatory requirements and organisational risk into clear functional plans, objectives and improvement programmes.
• Leading the development and use of quality performance reporting, management information and trend analysis, ensuring outputs support management decision-making, business assurance and targeted improvement activity.
• Providing advice, challenge and influence to management teams, project leaders and key stakeholders on quality governance, compliance, risk, supplier performance and improvement priorities.
• Overseeing the effectiveness of supplier and contractor quality arrangements, ensuring significant concerns, recurring issues and performance risks are appropriately addressed.
• Representing the Quality function across internal management forums, Corporate stakeholders and other relevant parties, ensuring SPT requirements are understood and supported through the wider management system.
• Influencing Portfolio, Project Engineering, Construction, Procurement and Leadership teams, embedding quality expectations into Governance, Planning, Design, Procurement and Delivery decisions.
• Exercising management judgement on escalated quality matters, including the prioritisation of interventions, deployment of resources, management of risk and resolution of issues with wider business impact.

What you’ll bring

• Degree qualified in Engineering, Quality or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Significant experience in Quality management within an Engineering and Construction environment.
• Proven experience of leading specialist or multi-disciplinary teams, including performance management, capability development, workforce planning and resource prioritisation.
• Strong understanding of Quality and regulatory standards, with the ability to interpret requirements and translate them into effective business controls.
• Experience of setting direction for audit, assurance, governance and non-conformance processes within a complex operational environment.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical capability, comfortable interpreting performance data and identifying systemic issues.
• Experience leading change, embedding new ways of working and delivering continuous improvement.
• Confidence in the use of Microsoft applications and relevant Quality and information management systems.
• Willingness to undertake occasional travel and short periods away from home, with flexibility to work outside standard hours when required.

Whats in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers
• Electric Vehicle Schemes
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system.

We’re investing over £10.6 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.

Mobility Information: Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.