Quality and Compliance Advisor

Avove Utilities; North East; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading utilities infrastructure company in the North East is seeking a Quality and Compliance Advisor to implement health, safety, and environmental strategies. The role involves conducting audits, setting up inspection regimes, and providing training on quality processes. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills and attention to detail. This full-time position offers a hybrid work model and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

24 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company car/car allowance

Company pension scheme

Life assurance

Health Cash Plan

Discount Scheme

Family friendly policies

Volunteering days

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar Quality Management role.
• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Familiarity with health, safety, and environmental strategies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct supplier audits to ensure quality.
• Set up inspection regimes for operational teams.
• Provide training on quality processes.
• Analyze inspection data and report on quality metrics.
• Document non-conforming products and initiate corrective actions.

Skills

Research skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Increase your chances of an interview by reading the following overview of this role before making an application.

Working here isn’t just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we’ll reward you with a range of benefits that recognise great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves. Join us and take the next step towards a fulfilling career.

About The Role…

We have been awarded a major multi-million-pound design and build framework agreement with Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) as part of NWG’s Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) £3.6 billion investment programme. As we embark on this exciting 12-year design and build framework, we are looking for a Quality and Compliance Advisor to join our HSEQ function.

This role will report to the Lead HSEQ Advisor, supporting the Northumbrian Water Team in implementing health, safety, and environmental strategies at the local level while ensuring alignment with departmental and group-wide objectives.

This is a full-time permanent role and will be based from our Durham office along with working from home on a hybrid basis.

What will your day look like

• Conducting supplier audits to ensure the quality and competence of the subcontracted labour and materials we receive.
• Setting up an inspection regime for the operational teams that is easy to follow and ensure good quality control
• Providing training to staff on quality processes and maintaining detailed inspection records.
• Collaborating with external vendors and suppliers to ensure that they meet quality standards
• Recording inspection results, analysing data to identify trends or patterns, and creating reports on quality metrics.
• Documenting non-conforming products, initiating corrective actions, and communicating issues to relevant personnel.
• Ensuring compliance with company quality management systems, industry standards, and regulatory requirements. Maintaining and calibrating testing equipment to ensure accuracy.
• Investigating the root cause of quality problems and proposing solutions to prevent recurrence.

About You

As the Quality and Compliance Advisor, you will have strong research and analytical skills, great attention to detail, excellent interpersonal skills and experience in a similar Quality Management role. You will be key to fostering a culture of safety and compliance, ensuring the highest standards of health, safety, and environmental performance across all operations. Experience working in the Utilities, Civils or Construction sector would be advantageous but it isn’t an essential requirement, and we will consider applicants from all backgrounds.

What’s in it for you

We offer a rewarding salary that is tailored to your skills and experience. But that’s not all! We celebrate hard work and give recognition to our colleagues. In addition to this, we understand that one size doesn’t fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.

• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Company car/car allowance
• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Private GP Helpline & Health Cash Plan
• Avove Discount Scheme
• Family friendly policies
• A selection of lifestyle benefit options
• Financial wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
• We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.

About Us

We design, build and maintain the UK’s utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.

We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power and telecommunications sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment. Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.

We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Scottish Water.

We are an equal opportunities employer...

We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity and creates an engaging workplace and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, we’re making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.

What next

We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of recruitment process.

If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion