Project Quality Manager - Talent Community

Laing O'Rourke; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

Laing O'Rourke is inviting experienced Project Quality Managers to join a Talent Community for major UK projects. You will lead quality assurance, embed a get it right first time culture, and act as the quality ambassador to clients and stakeholders across healthcare, life sciences, data centres, power and defence sectors.

With 10+ years in quality leadership and ISO 9001 knowledge, you will drive improvements, mentor engineers, and support audits and lessons learned across multi-site programmes

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in Quality governance, assurance, and leadership.
• Experience in high-assurance sectors (Nuclear, Rail, Energy, Healthcare).
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proven team leadership and prioritisation capability.
• Excellent understanding of ISO 9001:2015 and related standards.
• Digital construction and assurance system experience (Fieldview, Asite, Trimble).
• Ability to work under pressure in complex project environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement and champion the Quality Management System.
• Act as the key Quality contact for stakeholders, including certification bodies.
• Lead a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and proactive risk identification.
• Deliver training, inductions and toolbox talks to uplift productivity, safety, and quality.
• Review and guide quality-critical documentation (Quality Plans, ITPs, Method Statements).
• Monitor and analyse Non-Conformances, driving corrective actions and root cause analysis.
• Lead/support the Quality Incident Event Process for Category 1 NCRs.
• Leverage digital construction tools to support lifetime quality records and reporting.
• Ensure LTQR documentation and the golden thread are maintained.
• Manage requirements across the project lifecycle, ensuring clarity and compliance.
• Represent Quality with clients and stakeholders, reporting performance and KPIs.
• Mentor Quality Engineers and foster cross-functional relationships.
• Support audits, certifications, lessons learned, and pan-Hub quality initiatives.
• Contribute to strategic quality improvements aligned with organisational goals.

Skills

Quality governance

Stakeholder mgmt

Leadership

ISO 9001

Digital construction tools

Risk management

Documentation reviews

Audit support

Training delivery

Mentor/coach

Tools

Fieldview

Asite

Trimble

Job description

Join Our Project Quality Manager Talent Community - Shape the Future of the UK's Most Ambitious Projects

Are you a Project Quality Manager with exceptional stakeholder skills and a passion for delivering excellence? Are you ready to join Laing O'Rourke and contribute to some of the biggest and most complex building and infrastructure projects in the UK?

Over The Next 6–9 Months (April – June 2026), We Expect To Begin Engaging PQMs For a Range Of Major Projects And Portfolios Across Multiple Sectors, Including

Healthcare | Life Sciences | Data Centres | Power | Water | Defence

If you have experience in any of our core industries — Healthcare, Science & Research, Data Centres, Rail, Nuclear / Power Transmission & Distribution, Defence, Aviation or Prisons — we'd love you to join our Project Quality Manager Talent Pool so we can keep you updated on new opportunities throughout 2025 and into 2026.

Why This Opportunity Matters

As a Project Quality Manager (PQM) at Laing O'Rourke, you'll be at the heart of major engineering programmes. You'll lead the charge on quality assurance and control, embedding a get it right first time culture and ensuring our teams deliver the exceptional outcomes our clients expect. Your work will directly influence operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and the integrity of some of the UK's most prestigious projects.

What You'll Be Doing

As a PQM, You Will

• Implement and champion the Quality Management System.
• Act as the key Quality contact for stakeholders, including certification bodies.
• Lead a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and proactive risk identification.
• Deliver training, inductions and toolbox talks to uplift productivity, safety, and quality.
• Review and guide quality-critical documentation (Quality Plans, ITPs, Method Statements, etc.).
• Monitor and analyse Non-Conformances, driving corrective actions and root cause analysis.
• Lead/support the Quality Incident Event Process for Category 1 NCRs.
• Leverage digital construction tools to support lifetime quality records and reporting.
• Ensure the creation and management of LTQR documentation, maintaining the golden thread.
• Manage requirements across the project lifecycle, ensuring clarity and compliance.
• Represent Quality with clients and key stakeholders, reporting performance and KPIs.
• Mentor Quality Engineers and foster strong cross-functional relationships.
• Support audits, certifications, lessons learned, and pan-Hub quality initiatives.
• Contribute to strategic quality improvements aligned with organisational goals.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years\' experience in Quality (governance, assurance, compliance, improvement, leadership)
• Experience in high-assurance sectors (Nuclear, Rail, Energy, Healthcare, etc.)
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Proven team leadership and prioritisation capability
• Excellent understanding of ISO 9001:2015 and related standards
• Digital construction and assurance system experience (Fieldview, Asite, Trimble)
• Ability to work under pressure in complex project environments

Desirable

• ISO 9001:2015 Internal/Lead Auditor certification
• Chartered status with CQI or an equivalent professional body (or working towards)

Why Laing O'Rourke?

We are an international engineering and construction organisation with over 150 years of heritage, delivering landmark buildings and infrastructure across the UK, Middle East and Australia. Our reputation is built on certainty, reliability and quality — and on the passion, ambition and teamwork of our people. We are proudly a Disability Confident Employer, offering inclusive recruitment and workplace adjustments to support candidates with long-term health conditions or disabilities.

About Us

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia. Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [e-mail]