Quality Engineer

BYLOR Joint Venture; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Company pension scheme

Annual holiday allowance

Job summary

BYLOR Joint Venture seeks a Quality Manager to establish and oversee quality management arrangements for HPC works. You will measure effectiveness, drive improvements, and support handover with rigorous records and traceability.

You will train teams and suppliers on the Quality Management System, develop plans and templates, and ensure corrective actions are implemented to prevent reoccurrence.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing quality management on large construction projects.
• Strong communication at all levels and with clients, suppliers, and teams.
• Ability to develop, cascade and train on Quality Plans, procedures and templates.

Responsibilities

• Implement and cascade the Bylor Quality Management System across project teams and suppliers.
• Review and approve Quality Plans, Inspection & Test Plans, and Quality Records.
• Ensure non-conformances are identified, root-caused, and corrected.
• Track handover records and ensure traceability of works.
• Monitor KPIs and drive continuous improvement in quality outputs.
• Escalate quality risks to senior management when necessary.
• Identify improvements and drive related actions to completion.

Skills

Quality management

Audit & compliance

Training

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Quality risk management

Tools

Quality Management System (QMS)

Job description

Bouygues Travaux Publics (TP) and Laing O’Rourke, two of Europe’s most dynamic engineering and construction specialists, are working together in a joint venture named BYLOR to deliver the main civil engineering works at Hinkley Point C (HPC) worth over £2.8 billion.

Bylor are pushing the boundaries of innovation and modern technology while delivering high quality construction on a massive scale. Bylor have already broken the UK record for the largest continuous concrete pour of 9,000m3 of concrete.

This is great opportunity to be part of a dynamic organization that is challenging the industry and making history.

Purpose of the role:

To support the Quality Manager in establishing and overseeing the implementation of the quality management arrangements, measuring its effectiveness, and supporting the improvement projects required to optimise effective quality arrangements.

Key responsibilities and specific accountabilities:

• Implement, cascade, train, brief Bylor teams & its Suppliers on Project Requirements and Bylor Quality Management System, i.e. plans, procedures, guides, templates. Develop training materials as required.
• Provide guidance, review, comment on the preparation of deliverables such as Quality Plans, Inspection & Test Plans, Quality Records, Records Templates and other quality execution and quality records.
• Ensure non-conformances in products and processes are properly managed, cause is properly identified, correction and corrective actions are properly defined and implemented.
• Review and approve Quality records as part of the Life-Time Quality records for approval of the Client - Ensure that records show traceability of the works.
• Track and support the Handover process as rooms and buildings near completion, in particular in relation to records and outstanding works.
• Monitor quality outputs/KPIs and support the team to progress works through continuous improvement.
• Intervene when the quality of works is at risk or has been affected and elevate to senior management level as appropriate to ensure proper resolution.
• Identify improvements, define related actions, and then follow up their implementation.
• Promote the various management policies, objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• An ability to communicate at all levels is essential as you will be presenting on quality matters to project teams, suppliers and Client organisations.
• A high level of organisation and the ability to follow processes and multi-task is essential as you will have the responsibility for planning and completing many tasks simultaneously.

Additional Information:

All positions with Bylor are employed directly with either Laing O’Rourke or Bouygues Travaux Public and include competitive salaries, private medical insurance, company pension schemes and annual holiday allowance. Some grades will also include a company car allowance.

This role is predominantly based onsite at HPC in Somerset but will require regular visits to external facilities to undertake audits.

Somerset boasts beautiful English countryside, an attractive coastline, interesting towns and villages along with easy access to the M5 and within proximity to the cities of Bristol and Exeter.

Bylor are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and promote greater equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace.