Quality Assurance Advisor

Anglian Water Services; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading utility provider in Huntingdon is seeking a Quality Assurance Advisor to support quality management, ensuring compliance with standards and facilitating internal audits. The role requires proficiency in MS Office, strong organizational skills, and the ability to work in a team environment. Benefits include a competitive salary package, private healthcare, and generous leave policies.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Private healthcare

Annual bonus scheme

25 days holiday, increasing with service

Free parking

Family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Proficient in MS Office Suite.
• Educated to A Level Standard or equivalent.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to communicate at various levels.
• Strong team working skills, with the ability to work alone.
• Confident to work with numbers and calculations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with relevant quality standards.
• Maintain, control, and archive databases.
• Monitor quality control processes and report findings.
• Support external audits (UKAS and BSi).
• Review performance of analytical methods.
• Undertake competency assessments in operational teams.
• Escalate identified risks to management.
• Coordinate updating and archiving of controlled procedures.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation.

Skills

Proficient in MS office suite

Strong organisational skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Strong team working skills

Confident with numbers and calculations

Education

A Level Standard or equivalent

Job description

Quality Assurance Advisor
Circa £30,000 dependent on skills & experience
Permanent, 37 hours per week
Huntingdon

Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!

In this dynamic position, you’ll support the Quality Manager and Deputy Quality Managers in maintaining and enhancing our quality systems. From coordinating document control and monitoring quality control processes, to assisting with audits and competency assessments, your work will directly contribute to ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous improvement.

A key part of this role will be to assist in internal audits, method witness and ongoing competency programmes, as well as coordinating participation in proficiency testing schemes and monitoring performance.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with the relevant quality standards (e.g ISO 17025, ISO 9001, DWTS, MCERTS)
• Ensure that the databases used by the team are maintained, controlled and archived as required
• Proactively monitor the quality control processes for trends and report back to the Quality Team on the findings
• Take an active role in supporting external audits (UKAS and BSi)
• Review the performance of analytical methods (e.g Precision, Bias, Uncertainty of Measure)
• Undertake competency assessments in the operational teams (analytical and sampling)
• Escalate any identified risks to operational and quality management
• Coordinate the updating, issue, retrieval and archive of controlled procedures and methods
• Ensure that working practices within the laboratory are in line with Company Health and Safety charter
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Private healthcare for your peace of mind
• An annual bonus scheme
• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental
• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks
• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful?

• Proficient in MS office suite
• Educated to A Level Standard or equivalent
• Strong organisational, prioritisation and time management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to communicate at various levels
• Strong team working skills, with the ability to work alone
• Confident to work with numbers and calculations
• Willingness to support the operational requirements across all areas of the analytical laboratory

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 10th December 2025

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