Quality Manager in Blantyre

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, while 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, you will ensure proportionate governance, robust escalation routes and effective follow‑up of significant risks, trends and systemic issues are completed.
• Matters requiring strategic direction, policy approval or enterprise-level governance will be escalated to the Head of Quality, Environment and IMS.
• Working closely with the wider business, you will translate business priorities, regulatory requirements and organisational risk into clear functional plans, objectives and improvement programmes.
• You will lead 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.
• Through the identification and delivery of functional improvement initiatives, you will ensure lessons learned, audit findings, quality trends and business feedback are translated into sustainable improvements in practice, process and control.
• Providing advice, challenge and influence to management teams, project leaders and key stakeholders on quality governance, compliance, risk, supplier performance and improvement priorities, you will oversee the effectiveness of supplier and contractor quality arrangements, ensuring significant concerns, recurring issues and performance risks are appropriately addressed, escalated and reflected in future controls or interventions.
• Representing the Quality function across internal management forums, Corporate stakeholders and other relevant parties, you will ensure SPT requirements are understood, reflected and supported through the wider management system.
• You will influence Portfolio, Project Engineering, Construction, Procurement and Leadership teams, embedding quality expectations into Governance, Planning, Design, Procurement and Delivery decisions, driving behavioural change and accountability across portfolios.
• You will also exercise 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

• You will be degree qualified in Engineering, Quality or a related discipline, or be able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience.
• With significant experience in Quality management within an Engineering and Construction environment, you will have accountability for management systems, assurance activities and functional improvement programmes.
• You will bring proven experience of leading specialist or multi‑disciplinary teams, including performance management, capability development, workforce planning and resource prioritisation.
• A strong understanding of Quality and regulatory standards is essential, with the ability to interpret requirements and translate them into effective business controls, frameworks and expectations.
• You will have experience of setting direction for audit, assurance, governance and non‑conformance processes within a complex operational environment, supporting multiple projects or business areas with varying risks, stakeholder requirements and operational demands.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills are critical, enabling you to effectively advise, challenge and gain buy‑in from Senior Managers, Project teams, Suppliers and key Stakeholders.
• With strong analytical capability, you will be comfortable interpreting performance data, identifying systemic issues and using management information to drive improvement and intervention.
• You will also have experience leading change, embedding new ways of working and delivering continuous improvement across teams, processes and management systems.
• Confidence in the use of Microsoft applications and relevant Quality and information management systems is also required.
• This role also requires a willingness to undertake occasional travel and short periods away from home, together with the flexibility to work outside standard hours when required to meet business needs.

Whats in it for you

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

• Pension scheme: we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• 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

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that – so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow.

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. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£10.6billion 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.

We are one of the main energy companies in the world, a leader in renewables, which champions the energy transition towards a low‑emissions economy. We supply energy to nearly 100 million people in dozens of countries and develop its renewable, network and commercial activities in Europe (Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil and Australia and maintain markets such as Japan and Poland, among others, as growth platforms.

Inclusion & Diversity

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.

It takes all kinds of people to build a large‑scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in. 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. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.

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. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.