Lead Quality Engineer

Siemens Energy; Corsham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Energy is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer (Projects) to ensure the highest quality standards across all project phases. This role involves leading quality assurance resources, collaborating with suppliers and customers, and focusing on continuous improvement through internal audits and training.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Company share scheme

Employee discounts

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Up to 10 years of relevant experience in a senior operational quality position.
• Experience working in highly supervised industries and large infrastructure projects.
• Lead auditor qualification required.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality assurance resources and supervise quality inspection.
• Collaborate with customers to resolve quality issues.
• Conduct internal audits and document lessons learned.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Supplier Collaboration

Continuous Improvement

Education

Lead Auditor Qualification

NG Persons or similar

Job description

Lead Quality Engineer - Projects

A Snapshot of Your Day

Travel (roughly 60%) required around East Anglia and wider UK with home based working.

As a Lead Quality Engineer (Projects) at Siemens Energy, your day revolves around ensuring the highest quality standards across all project phases. You start with a team stand-up meeting to align on priorities and address any immediate concerns. Your role includes leading quality assurance resources, conducting supplier quality surveillance, and collaborating with customers to resolve quality issues.

You assist Work Package Managers in preventing failures and closing non-conformance reports, while also organizing training sessions on quality methodologies like FMEA and 8-D-method. Continuous improvement is a key focus, so you conduct internal audits and document lessons learned to enhance processes. The day concludes with a report to the Project Director, summarizing achievements and planning for the next steps.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead quality assurance resources on the project and supervise quality inspection resources. NB This is an exciting senior Lead role focused on customer led Projects, not a people management position.

• Collaborate with customers regarding Quality to ensure timely resolution of issues to their contentment and address all external quality concerns, such as registration bodies and Industry bodies.

• Ensure and reporting of appropriate activities regarding the Quality management of the Project.

• Assist the Work package managers in failure prevention and NRC closure and other quality issues as they arise, ensuring the provision of quality training as required to project staff.

• Have an oversight on quality supplier selection and ongoing surveillance\monitoring activity for the project.

• Carry out effective planning and management of day-to-day tasks across the team, both pro-active and re-active, such as auditing, inspections, lessons learned, leading continuous improvements activity and C.A.P.A during the project lifecycle.

• Identification of qualification shortcomings and training of project employees with regard to quality, looking at knowledge of methodology such as risk analysis, F.M.E.A, review techniques, cause-effect analysis, 8-D-method and process awareness such as role, content, benefits for subsequent process stages etc and also specialist knowledge such as I.T by initiating of corresponding measures (e.g., training courses).

What You Bring

• Up to 10 years of relevant experience mentioned below:

• Substantial experience in a senior operational quality position such as a senior quality engineer working in a project office environment.

• Hold a lead auditor qualification and NG Persons or similar.

• Substantial experience of working in highly supervised industries and in a matrix organisation assisting in the delivery of large infrastructure projects.

About the Team

The high performing Quality Team in the UK consists of Quality Managers and Quality Engineers who support the Project Entity and the Grid Technology & Grid Services (GTGS) businesses.

Within these there is a wide portfolio of prestigious projects including substations, HVDC interconnectors and wind farm connections, Grid Access, Flexible Arc Transmission and synchronous condensers. The Quality Team also work closely with colleagues in the Environmental and EHS Teams.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards

At Siemens Energy, we value our employees and offer a comprehensive benefits package including a competitive salary, annual bonus, generous holiday allowance, pension, company share scheme, and employee discounts. We also encourage flexibility and innovation in the workplace, supporting agile working arrangements. Join our diverse and inclusive team where your unique talents and perspectives will be celebrated and contribute to our mission of providing sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy to the world.

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