Quality & Compliance Engineer

GE Vernova; Stafford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Grid Solutions is seeking a Quality and Compliance Engineer in the UK to strengthen the Engineering delivery team. You will ensure processes are current, fit for purpose, and rigorously applied across tender and project delivery phases.

The role involves audits, process development, and embedding best practices, with a focus on improving efficiency and capitalising on project learnings within the North Europe Grid System Integration context.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required.
• Experience with project delivery activities on large capital projects.
• Familiar with quality systems, auditing, and process improvement techniques/tools.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular audits to ensure processes are applied correctly and manage corrective actions.
• Update and develop procedures to drive improvements and maintenance of processes.
• Educate engineering teams on process expectations and business requirements.
• Lead capturing and capitalisation of learnings from projects and communicate improvements.

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Job Description Summary

Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

The North Europe Grid System Integration (GSI) team delivers a wide range of high voltage AC and DC transmission projects, and is looking for a "Quality and Compliance Engineer" to join the engineering delivery team.

These large and complex projects are designed and delivered using a wide range of processes and procedures, and it is critical that the processes used are current, fit for purpose and applied rigorously and consistently throughout the full life of the project.

• Perform regular audits to ensure the required processes and procedures are effectively applied, and manage any actions needed to correct non-conformances.
• Work with the function leaders to update existing processes, and develop new procedures as the need arises. Educate the Engineering teams on the application of processes and the business expectations.
• Lead and manage the capturing and Capitalisation of the learning experienced from the projects being executed, including both the communication of the issue, and process changes to avoid reoccurrence.

Job Description

As part of this role, you will undertake the following tasks:

Process Compliance

Undertake regular audits on the application of the processes used by the Engineering Team at both the tender and project delivery phases.

• Identify and document any non-conformance, and manage the undertaking of both the short and long term corrective actions.

Process Maintenance and Development

• Identify and undertake the updating of existing procedures in order to create improvement, efficiencies and general maintenance.
• Identification of process gaps and the creation of new procedures to resolve the issue.
• Ensure that the processes used by the Engineering team are coordinated, both within the Engineering function, and with other parts of the business.
• Represent the North and South Europe Region at a global level, for the creation and deployment of high-level centralised Engineering procedures.
• From a process development and deployment perspective, support the introduction of continuous improvement actions.
• Continually educate the Engineering teams on the application of processes and the business expectations.

Experience Capture and Capitalisation

• Lead and manage the capturing and capitalisation of the learning experienced from current and past projects.
• Facilitate regular return of experience meetings during the life of the projects in order to systematically capture the learning.
• Facilitate both ad-hoc and regular communication sessions to raise awareness of best practice, quality concerns and areas of learning.
• Identify and undertake any process changes resulting from both good and bad experiences on the projects.

Requirements

• A first degree in an engineering discipline.
• Proven experience working in a role that has exposure to project delivery activities, and be familiar with the types of processes and procedures used to deliver large capital projects.
• Be familiar with quality systems and undertaking process auditing, and be able to undertake and use techniques and tools for process improvement.
• Regularly undertakes the creation of business processes & procedures, and provides education to the users.
• Has a working knowledge of ISO9001:2015

Desired Characteristics

• A systematic and disciplined approach to their work, and be able to present information in a clear and understandable fashion.
• Be confident to discuss issues with internal stakeholders and subject matter experts, and be able to propose solutions or improvements to correct deficiencies or improve efficiency.
• Be a team player, with good communication and interpersonal skills, be capable of self-management, and have a high degree of flexibility, resilience and a self-learning attitude.

About GE Grid Solutions

At GE Grid Solutions we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space our goal is to accelerate the transition for a more energy efficient grid to full fill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotable role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive to carbon neutral. In Grid Solutions we help enable the transition for a greener more reliable Grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.

Why we come to work

At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge - and we're always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you'll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one