Quality Director

Babcock International Group; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Employee share scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear invites applications for a Quality Director to lead quality excellence on the Hinkley Point C programme. The role drives quality assurance, control, governance, and continuous improvement across a multi-partner alliance in a high-profile construction setting.

The role requires senior leadership in quality management within large-scale projects, with Lead Auditor qualification and strong stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience in quality management within large-scale construction or infrastructure environments.
• Proven success developing and implementing quality strategies within the nuclear industry.
• Experience leading quality assurance, quality control, and documentation programmes throughout major project delivery lifecycles.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders, contractors, and delivery partners.
• Demonstrated success driving cultural change, continuous improvement, and high-performing quality teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading the quality strategy across the alliance, ensuring quality is fully integrated throughout project delivery.
• Driving consistency by aligning quality standards, processes, governance, and expectations across multiple alliance partners.
• Overseeing the production, verification, and timely acceptance of quality records and documentation.
• Building a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Providing strategic leadership on quality performance, risk management, regulatory compliance, and organisational capability development.

Skills

Quality leadership

Nuclear industry experience

Quality assurance

Quality control

Documentation programmes

Stakeholder management

Education

Lead Auditor qualification (ISO 9001)

Job description

Job Title: Quality Director

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75367

Lead Quality Excellence on One of Europe’s Most Complex Nuclear Construction Programmes

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Quality Director at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

Role

As a Quality Director, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance. This is a high-profile leadership role where you'll drive quality assurance, quality control, governance, compliance, and continuous improvement across a complex multi-partner alliance.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading the quality strategy across the alliance, ensuring quality is fully integrated throughout project delivery.
• Driving consistency by aligning quality standards, processes, governance, and expectations across multiple alliance partners.
• Overseeing the production, verification, and timely acceptance of quality records and documentation.
• Building a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Providing strategic leadership on quality performance, risk management, regulatory compliance, and organisational capability development.

This role is full time, working 37 hours per week, and is based on-site at Hinkley Point C. Accommodation and travel expenses are paid.

Essential experience of the Quality Director

• Significant senior leadership experience in quality management within large-scale construction or infrastructure environments.
• Proven success developing and implementing quality strategies within the nuclear industry,.
• Experience leading quality assurance, quality control, and documentation programmes throughout major project delivery lifecycles.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders, contractors, and delivery partners.
• Demonstrated success driving cultural change, continuous improvement, and high-performing quality teams.

Qualifications for the Quality Director

• Lead Auditor qualification (ISO 9001 or equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of quality management systems and regulatory compliance frameworks.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a valid UK passport holder, with the ability to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 21/08/2026

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