Quality Assurance Engineer

EDF (UK); Leiston; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Diversity & inclusion

Disability support

Reasonable adjustments

Job summary

EDF UK at Sizewell B Power Station seeks an experienced Quality Assurance professional to support, monitor and improve the station's integrated management system in line with the Nuclear Site License and Company Quality Policies.

You will audit, review and enhance QA processes, lead audit programmes, and provide guidance to process owners to ensure consistent quality across the site. A strong independent mindset and excellent communication are essential for success.

Qualifications

• As a minimum, hold a relevant HNC level qualification or equivalent.
• Lead auditor qualifications for ISO9001, 14001 and 45001 desirable.
• Experience auditing integrated management systems as a lead auditor.
• Ability to discuss audit scope, objectives and findings with auditees.
• Demonstrate independence, impartiality and objectivity in all situations.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills.
• Understand effective management systems in nuclear or similarly technical industries.

Responsibilities

• Support the Quality Management Group Head to implement and maintain an integrated management system.
• Manage the station management system manual for Sizewell B.
• Plan and run audit/outage surveillance programmes to improve performance.
• Act as Lead Auditor to verify arrangements meet licence, regulations and procedures.
• Lead audits, monitor corrective actions and mentor trainee auditors.
• Implement outage quality assurance requirements to support outages.
• Assist investigations of Significant Events and challenge QA requirements.
• Review Quality Plans and Technical Specifications with the Specifier.
• Attend contract meetings to ensure suppliers understand quality requirements.
• Provide QA expertise to process owners and promote best practices.
• Support training on graded QA and quality plans.
• Collate lessons learnt from audits and LRQA findings and share them.
• Complete effectiveness reviews of lessons learned.
• Identify opportunities for local and business-wide improvements.
• Support external assessments and inform staff of expectations.

Skills

Lead auditor

Auditing

Quality assurance

Independent judgement

Effective communication

Education

HNC level qualification or equivalent

Lead auditor qualifications (ISO9001/14001/45001)

Job description

The Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity at Sizewell B Power Station to join our team of Quality Assurance professionals, TSSD.

About The Role

We currently have an exciting opportunity at Sizewell B Power Station to join our team of Quality Assurance professionals, TSSD.

The role supports, monitors and identifies opportunities for improvement for the ongoing development and implementation of Station Management Systems to meet the requirements of the Nuclear Site License and Company Quality Polices.

Candidates should understand the requirements for the implementation, monitoring and continual improvement of the station integrated management system. You'll be working to meet the requirements of the site license and Company Quality Policies.

Candidates should understand the requirements of an effective management system and have experience in auditing integrated management systems, analysing business units performance and preparing audit reports to identify potential quality assurance shortfalls.

Pay, Benefits And Culture

In addition to a competitive salary and a market-leading pension scheme. Your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

Here at EDF UK, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

What You'll Be Doing

• Supports the Quality Management Group Head in establishing, implementing and maintaining a coherent and integrated management system.
• Implements and manages the company station management system manual for the station.
• Prepares and manages station audit / outage surveillance programmes to improve process / areas of poor performance.
• Acts as a Lead Auditor or an Auditor to provide independence to confirm adequate arrangements are in place for satisfying site licence requirements, statutory regulations, company and local directives and procedures.
• Arranges and conducts audits as Lead Auditor, and monitors closeout of corrective actions and supervises and assesses the performance of trainee auditors / lead auditors.
• Implements outage quality assurance requirements to support successful outage outcomes
• Assists in investigating Significant Events, as requested to challenge the quality assurance requirements, and reflect the station audit programme with effectiveness reviews / emergent audits.
• Reviews of Quality Plans and Contract Enquiry Technical Specifications, in consultation with the Specifier.
• Attends contract inaugural meetings ensuring that suppliers understand the contractual quality requirements and are made aware of our standards and expectations.
• Provides management system expertise, support and guidance to the station process owners, departments and process owners to assist them in ensuring that quality standards are met with a consistent approach and that good practice is shared throughout the business unit
• Supports training staff regarding the Graded Application of Quality Assurance, development and use of quality plans and for the Stations Process Owners regarding process management.
• Collates lessons learnt from Fleet Process Audit findings in which the station did not participate, and from LRQA findings from all sites, and facilitates their review where applicable by the Station Process Owner.
• Completes effectiveness reviews on the implementation of lessons learnt from the audits / inspections / surveillances / interventions as agreed by the station management team.
• Identify opportunities for improvement at local and business level and communicates these appropriately.
• Supports the station with external assessments, and ensures staff are aware of the expectations of these groups.

Who You Are

• As a minimum, applicants must hold a relevant HNC level qualification or equivalent.
• Lead auditor qualifications for ISO9001, 14001 and 45001 would be desirable
• Experience of auditing integrated management system as a lead auditor
• Able to confidently discuss audit scope, objectives and findings with internal and external auditees at all levels
• Able to demonstrate independence of mind, impartiality and objectivity in all situations
• Demonstrate effective communication skills both verbally and in writing at all levels
• Has a sound appreciation of an effective management system in the nuclear or other technically oriented industry

Closing date for applications is Sunday September 27th, and interviews take place in early October.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.

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