Quality Director

NG Bailey; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday per year

Pension with up to 8% employer contrib

Private healthcare

Flexible Benefits

Car/Car Allowance

Job summary

NG Bailey is seeking an experienced Quality Director for the Hinkley Point C project in Bridgwater, Somerset. You will embed quality across planning, installation, verification and handover, ensuring compliance with nuclear safety and regulatory expectations.

Lead the MEH Alliance Quality Strategy, manage quality records, and drive a cohesive quality approach across alliance partners, enabling safe and efficient delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading large, complex quality functions on long-term industrial engineering projects.
• Strong operational leadership with the ability to coordinate across multiple functions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and escalation of critical issues.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the MEH Alliance Quality Strategy aligned with HPC standards.
• Lead creation and acceptance of quality records across the programme.
• Establish governance and performance metrics for quality across partners.

Skills

Large-scale quality leadership

Stakeholder management

Nuclear project experience

Delivery-focused leadership

Job description

Permanent

Competitive Salary + Car/Car Allowance + Flexible Benefits

Bridgwater - Hinkley Point C Site Permanent Competitive Salary + Car/Car Allowance + Flexible Benefits NG Bailey are proud to be involved in the Hinkley Point C project based in Bridgwater, Somerset. This is the first in a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain providing zero-carbon electricity for around six million homes. NG Bailey, the UK’s leading independent engineering and services business, are proud to be part of the MEH Alliance, a joint venture to deliver the mechanical, electrical and HVAC installation for the project.

As we grow and progress on the project, we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Quality Director to join us on the project in Bridgwater.

This role will ensure that quality is embedded into how the Alliance plans, executes and records its work, enabling the programme to demonstrate that the Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC scope has been installed and verified in accordance with nuclear safety and regulatory expectations.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:

• Develop and implement the MEH Alliance Quality Strategy, ensuring it supports the successful delivery of the programme and aligns with HPC quality and regulatory expectations. Ensuring that quality is fully integrated across construction planning, installation processes, verification and inspection regimes, handover and completion process.
• Lead the programme wide approach to the production, validation and acceptance of quality records, ensuring that documentation is complete, accurate, traceable and delivered on time.
• Create a single coherent quality approach across all Alliance partners, removing fragmentation between partner systems and processes. Ensuring that:
  • Quality expectations are clear and consistent
  • Roles and responsibilities are understood
  • Quality processes are standardised wherever possible
  • Assess the capability of the existing Quality organisation and implement any changes required to ensure it is fit for purpose for the next phase of the programme.
  • Ensure the programme has the right skills, structure and leadership capability within the quality function. Develop the capability of the quality community across the Alliance
  • Drive the development of a strong quality culture across the Alliance, where quality is understood as a fundamental part of safe and effective delivery.
  • Establish clear governance arrangements to ensure quality performance is monitored, reported and acted upon.
  • Develop meaningful performance metrics that allow leadership teams to understand record production progress, emerging risks and areas requiring investigation/intervention.

What we’re looking for:

• Previous experience leading large and complex quality functions in long term industrial engineering projects.
• Strong operational leadership capabilities
• Excellent stakeholder management, in particular coordinating with stakeholders across various functions, both internal and external to the alliance.
• Confidence in escalating issues and driving operational accountability
• Prior experience in Nuclear would be very advantageous due to the stage of the project we are in
• Calm, structured and delivery-focused leadership style

Benefits

• We are able to offer a competitive salary with generous uplift and allowances for working away from home where required.
• 25 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
• Pension with leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Private healthcare
• Discounts
• Personal development programme
• Flexible Benefits

Next Steps:

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

NG Bailey on the Hinkley Point C Project:

We are working across both Hinkley Point C units to deliver the infrastructure that will power the station and its operations, creating 1,000 jobs including many specialist engineers. Works include the design and installation of circa 76,000 cables totalling over 3,000km in length; over 180km of cable containment support systems; fire and environmental sealing; design and installation of earthing systems, and specialist packages associated with data acquisition and plant control.

About Us:

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.