Quality Delivery Lead

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days leave (pro rata)

Family friendly policies

Pension & benefits

Job summary

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is recruiting for a Quality Delivery Lead to provide leadership and assurance across the supply chain for one of the UK’s significant clean energy projects. Hybrid working (2 days in office) in Manchester or Bristol, leading a team to ensure the highest quality standards across design, procurement, manufacturing, testing and commissioning.

You will drive QA/QC across the supply chain, manage supplier audits, and report on quality performance with key stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering project quality in regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of QA/QC across design, procurement, manufacturing and commissioning.
• Experience carrying out supplier audits and managing supply chain quality.
• Ability to gain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Quality Management Leads and Quality Engineers.
• Ensure supply chain compliance with contractual QA/QC requirements.
• Support delivery of the Integrated Management System (IMS).
• Act as primary contact for all supply chain quality matters within your discipline.
• Oversee manufacturing surveillance to meet specifications.
• Review and accept supplier quality documentation and deliverables.
• Manage Inspection and Test Plans effectively.
• Conduct supplier audit programmes.
• Monitor and resolve quality issues and non-conformances.
• Build strong relationships with project teams, suppliers, regulators and EDF stakeholders.
• Provide quality performance reporting and escalate significant concerns.

Skills

Quality assurance

Quality control

Supplier audits

Stakeholder engagement

Security clearance

Education

HNC/HND in Quality Management

Engineering/Science degree

Job description

About The Role

Balfour Beatty are recruiting on behalf of the Sizewell C MEH Alliance. We are is seeking an experienced Quality Delivery Lead to provide leadership and assurance across the supply chain for one of the UK's most significant clean energy projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a quality professional with experience in major project delivery to lead a team of quality specialists, drive supply chain compliance, and ensure the highest standards of quality are achieved throughout the project lifecycle.

Sizewell C MEH Alliance | Bristol (Aztec West) or Manchester City Centre | Hybrid Working (Minimum 2 Days Per Week in Office)

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Head of Quality, you will lead a team of Quality Management Leads and Quality Engineers, ensuring quality requirements are effectively implemented across design, procurement, manufacturing, testing, installation, commissioning and project close-out activities.

You will act as the key quality representative for your discipline, working closely with project teams, suppliers and external stakeholders to ensure that quality assurance and quality control arrangements are applied consistently and effectively throughout the supply chain

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Quality Management Leads and Quality Engineers.
• Ensure supply chain compliance with contractual quality assurance and quality control requirements.
• Support delivery of the MEH Alliance Integrated Management System (IMS).
• Act as the primary point of contact for all supply chain quality matters within your discipline.
• Oversee manufacturing surveillance activities to ensure equipment and components meet contractual and technical specifications.
• Drive the effective review and acceptance of supplier quality documentation and deliverables.
• Ensure Inspection and Test Plans are managed effectively and applied appropriately.
• Conduct and support supplier audit programmes.
• Lead the monitoring and resolution of quality issues, non-conformances and corrective actions.
• Build strong working relationships with project teams, suppliers, EDF stakeholders, regulators and inspection bodies.
• Provide quality performance reporting and timely escalation of significant quality concerns

Who we're looking for

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• HNC/HND in Quality Management, or a degree in Engineering, Science or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in project quality delivery, ideally within the nuclear sector or similarly regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of Quality Assurance and Quality Control across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning environments.
• Experience carrying out supplier audits and managing supply chain quality activities.
• Excellent knowledge of quality management standards including:
• ISO 9001
• ISO 19443
• IAEA GSR-2
• Previous line management experience within a project environment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
• Ability to gain a security clearance

Desirable

• Experience within nuclear new build, major infrastructure or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience working within complex, contract-led organisations.
• Knowledge of Lifetime Quality Records (LTQRs) and manufacturing surveillance programmes.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

About Us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

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