UK QE&C Document Control Lead - Part-Time

Overview

UK QE&C Document Control Lead – Part-Time

Location: This is a remote role, with occasional travel required

Hours: Monday – Friday 10am – 2pm (20 hours)

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact? Leidos are seeking a UK QE&C Document Control Lead to join the team.

Key Responsibilities

• QA Review of Programme Deliverables: Perform thorough QA reviews of programme documentation and customer deliverables, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and compliance with ISO standards and internal best practices. Identify and address documentation discrepancies and provide corrective guidance to programme teams as needed.
• Document Control Training and Awareness: Develop and deliver training sessions for programme teams to enhance understanding and adherence to document control requirements, focusing on ISO standards and best practices. Establish clear communication channels to support ongoing document control awareness across all programmes. Regularly assess the effectiveness of document control training and make improvements as necessary. Work closely with programme managers and document owners to ensure understanding and implementation of document control processes. Provide guidance and act as a consultant on best practices in documentation, including document structure, format, and regulatory requirements.
• Integrated Management System (IMS) Support: Collaborate and assist the QE&C Coordinator to perform QA reviews of IMS documentation, ensuring alignment with ISO and company standards. Assist in the improvement and implementation of document control processes and systems within the IMS to ensure seamless access, retrieval, and management of critical documentation.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor and evaluate document control practices and recommend improvements for efficiency and effectiveness. Work closely with Quality and Programme Managers to identify documentation-related challenges and propose solutions that align with best practices.

Additional Roles And Responsibilities

• Document Control Process Development and Optimisation: Design and continually improve document control processes, ensuring they are efficient, user-friendly, and comply with ISO standards. Implement version control practices to maintain document integrity and traceability across revisions.
• Audit Preparation and Support: Prepare documentation and records for internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with document control standards. Act as the primary point of contact for document-related inquiries during audits and support audit teams with relevant documentation.
• Quality Metrics and Reporting: Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to document control and quality assurance. Regularly report on document control performance, highlighting compliance levels, review outcomes, and improvement areas.
• Risk Management for Documentation: Identify risks related to documentation, such as gaps in record-keeping, lack of training, or outdated information. Implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure documentation remains compliant, accessible, and accurate.
• Documentation Lifecycle Management: Establish processes for the entire document lifecycle, from creation and review to archival and disposal, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Regularly review and purge outdated documentation in alignment with retention policies, maintaining a lean and effective document repository.
• Continuous Education and Best Practice Adoption: Stay updated with changes in ISO standards and industry best practices in document control. Introduce new tools, technologies, or methodologies that enhance document control, ensuring the organisation stays at the forefront of compliance and efficiency.
• Standardisation of Document Templates: Create and maintain standardised document templates to streamline document creation and ensure consistency across programmes. Regularly review and update templates to ensure alignment with evolving company standards and industry practices.
• Incident Management for Document Control Issues: Investigate and resolve incidents related to document control, such as missing or incomplete records, unauthorised changes, or discrepancies. Establish corrective and preventive actions to reduce document-related incidents and improve reliability.

Clearance Requirements

• BPSS Pre-screening required to Start
• SC required for the role

What We Do For You

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance. We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment To Diversity

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services. Our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future. At Leidos, we don’t want someone who \”fits the mold\”—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better.

If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.

Pay Range: £34,200.00-£42,700.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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