Quality Engineer

Randstad; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading civil engineering and construction firm seeks a Quality Engineer for a prestigious rail project in North East England. The role focuses on quality assurance, improvement, and compliance with safety standards in a live rail environment. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience, with the opportunity to influence operational activities and enhance quality performance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a live rail environment with similar complexity and risk.
• Ability to form effective working relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Plan, evaluate, verify, and certify quality.
• Deploy quality assurance and control activities.
• Identify quality improvements and influence business changes.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Quality Improvement

Education

CQI Diploma Level 5

Graduate in a relevant discipline

Job description

My client, an industry-leading tier one civil engineering and construction firm, is looking for a Quality Engineer to join their Rail division on a temporary contract in the North East of England.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of one of the most prestigious rail projects in the North East of England.

Role Brief:

The Quality Engineer provides assurance that the quality management system is adequate, effectively implemented, and enables the delivery of expected results. This ensures requirements are met to achieve effective and efficient delivery of our mission at best value for our customers, as well as identifying improvements and facilitating the delivery of quality improvements that deliver sustained benefits.

About the role:

To plan, evaluate, verify, and certify quality, proposing and embedding improvements where necessary to ensure delivery is effective, minimizes the cost and/or consequence of failure, and meets customer, stakeholder, and/or PPP specifications and requirements.

Deploying quality assurance and control activities to support right first-time delivery for their area. Deploying quality improvement plans in accordance with relevant objectives. Using, capturing, and sharing learning from experience to support improvement in quality performance.

The Quality Engineer must work effectively to identify quality improvements and influence the business to adopt changes to improve relevant operational activity. Quality is a crucial factor underpinning overall safety standards on site. Processes for certification and verification are detailed due to the regulatory requirements of the nuclear industry.

Candidate requirements:

• Graduate in a relevant discipline OR professional qualification (e.g., CQI Diploma Level 5).
• Membership of the CQI or other relevant professional body.
• Internal Auditor certification.
• Proven experience within a live rail environment with similar complexity and risk, sufficient to understand and review end-to-end processes and propose quality improvements.
• Ability to form effective working relationships with stakeholders.
• Network Rail experience would be advantageous.

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