At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead quality assurance on major nuclear projects, ensuring compliance and driving excellence.
- Company: Join a leading firm in the nuclear sector with a focus on quality management.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and the chance to work on nationally significant projects.
- Other info: Collaborative team environment with opportunities for continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on critical infrastructure while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: HNC/HND or Degree in Engineering/Science; experience in Quality Assurance in safety-critical industries.
Play a pivotal role in assuring quality on some of the UK's most complex and nationally significant nuclear projects. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Quality Management Lead - Electrical to oversee quality compliance throughout the entire project lifecycle, from contract award and design through to manufacture, installation, commissioning and project close-out. Working within a highly regulated environment, you will ensure supply chain adherence to quality requirements while driving quality excellence across major infrastructure programmes. You'll join a collaborative Quality Management team where your expertise will directly influence project delivery, stakeholder confidence and long-term operational success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead quality assurance and quality control activities throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Ensure supply chain compliance with contractual quality requirements and specifications.
- Review, approve and monitor Contractor Quality Assurance Plans across the supply chain.
- Produce and maintain Project Quality Control Plans for assigned contracts.
- Drive quality improvements and support the resolution of quality-related issues.
- Coordinate supply chain audits and ensure timely closure of findings.
- Implement key contractual quality requirements, including lifetime quality records, inspection and testing arrangements.
- Lead Lifetime Quality Records reviews and quality release activities for equipment and manufactured components.
- Oversee manufacturing surveillance and inspection activities using a risk-based approach.
- Coordinate the review, acceptance and management of manufacturing, construction and project quality documentation.
- Build effective relationships with programme teams, suppliers, inspection agencies and other key stakeholders.
- Support Quality Delivery Managers and Quality Management Team Leads in delivering programme quality objectives and continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications & Requirements:
- HNC/HND or Degree in a relevant Engineering, Science or related discipline, or equivalent qualification.
- Proven experience within Quality Assurance and/or Quality Control in the nuclear sector or another safety-critical industry.
- Demonstrated leadership experience in a quality management, quality assurance or quality control environment.
- Strong track record of delivering quality improvements and achieving measurable business results.
- Broad experience implementing a range of quality assurance and quality control solutions.
- Experience developing and implementing Project Quality Control Plans.
- Strong understanding of supplier quality management, audits, inspections and surveillance activities.
- Experience reviewing technical, manufacturing and lifetime quality records documentation.
- Proven ability to engage, influence and resolve issues with a diverse stakeholder group.
- Experience working effectively within complex, large-scale and multi-cultural project environments.
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
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