Quality Manager

Quality Team Manager in Warrington, Cheshire.

Purpose of the job: As a Specialist Manager, you are responsible for delivery and performance. You will provide advice and guidance within your specialism and be a role model for Nuvia values and behaviours, supporting our organisational culture and ways of working. You will be a practicing quality professional with good knowledge and experience in the delivery of projects in a highly regulated industry. Your role includes ensuring that business-level quality requirements and improvements are identified and delivered effectively, supporting projects and contracts within the organisation to be managed within agreed procedures, and maintaining project quality requirements.

You will manage the Projects Engineering & Decommissioning Business Line Project Quality Assurance and Quality Control team.

Why Nuvia: Nuvia, a subsidiary of VINCI construction, operates across highly regulated sectors including Civil Nuclear and has a strong presence and history of delivery at nuclear sites in the UK and internationally. Nuvia is committed to the development of its people within a culture of safety, innovation, and excellence.

Reports to: The role reports into the Head of Project Management Office but will support both Business and Project level quality requirements.

Key Accountabilities:

• Proactively provide advice and guidance related to your areas of responsibility and/or expertise to external contacts/stakeholders and colleagues.
• Engage with external contacts/stakeholders and colleagues to build effective relationships and reach mutually beneficial solutions.
• Ensure advice is actioned to achieve the required outcome.
• Develop others to provide advice and guidance to a high standard.
• Identify opportunities to increase our influence in key areas.
• Lead and contribute to business department to deliver objectives set out in the company business plan.
• Ensure that teams you manage operate in line with our approach and values.
• Review working practices to ensure resource allocations are optimised and deliver continuous improvement.
• Collect, collate, analyse, and present complex information in line with requirements, policies, and procedures.
• Identify information gaps and take steps to resolve issues.
• Promote and contribute to the development of employees to deliver performance with clear direction, accountability, and responsibility.
• Ensure all systems and databases in your area are accurately maintained and quality checks are undertaken.
• Make recommendations for action where decisions are outside of delegated authority.
• Contribute to the achievement of our strategy by offering feedback and ideas for continuous improvement.
• Drive and support change and continuous improvement.
• Identify and implement improvements and deliver radical change if required.

Occupational Skills and Knowledge:

• Degree or relevant experience in line with a Quality role and having affiliate status with a view to achieve a PCQI or Chartered status.

Duties and Requirements:

• Interact with all key stakeholders, Exec Members, and P+L holders.
• Point of contact for external suppliers and 3rd parties related to specialism.
• Strong communicator with presentation skills.
• Able to provide specialist advice regarding Quality.
• Strategic decision making.
• Flexibility to travel to other UK offices and sites as necessary.
• Identify, report, and advise on risks and opportunities associated with meeting Client regulatory and legal requirements and stakeholder expectations within a project.

Project Quality Assurance:

• Input into project specifications.
• Quality Documentation – Authorship.
• Manage Project Deliverables.
• Project LFE collation.
• Project LTR collation.
• Ongoing Sub-contractor Quality documentation review.
• Liaison with Sub-contractors.
• Liaison with Client.
• Internal Audits.
• Client Audits.
• KPI monitoring.
• Project Quality Grading.

Project Continuous Improvement:

• Cost of non-conformance.
• Continuous Process improvement Development & Implementation.
• Change Management Support.

Corporate Quality Representation:

• Internal Audit support.
• Governance Support.
• Company Systems Management.
• Business Line representation on Corporate Strategy & change projects.
• Quality Grading Overview.
• External Audit Support.
• Corporate Quality Communications.

Business Line Quality Support:

• Data production to support Business level Quality KPIs.
• Support to Business Line Quality Communications.
• Business Line Quality Process, Procedures & Guidance.
• Management QMS & PMO.
• LFE process & wider business use.
• Stakeholder feedback.
• Process improvement.
• Support to Internal Audit.
• Provision of Business Line Governance & Assurance.
• Tender support.
• Knowledge Management.

Business Improvement:

• Continuous business improvement.
• Lean / Six Sigma Support.
• Process improvement.
• Cost of non-conformance.
• Continuous Process improvement, Development & Implementation.
• Change Management Support.

Work scope is subject to change in order to support business needs. The Job Description is a broad statement of the purpose, scope, and responsibilities essential to performing within the role to a required standard. The role and responsibilities defined will change with technology, working practices, and redefining of roles, and the process will be reviewed as changes demand. The format does not require every single task to be recorded; instead, the Job Description is written in a ‘generic’ style that permits flexibility but defines the boundaries of responsibility and accountability. Nuvia UK is committed to equality in employment.