Quality Engineer

Construction, Property and Engineering; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading civil engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Quality Engineer for their Rail division on a temporary contract. This role involves ensuring quality management systems are effective, proposing improvements, and influencing operational changes. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and proven experience in a rail environment. This project offers a chance to work on prestigious rail initiatives in the North East of England.

Qualifications

• Graduate in relevant discipline OR professional qualification (e.g. CQI Diploma (Level 5)).
• Membership of the CQI or other relevant professional body.
• 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, proposing improvements where necessary.
• Deploy quality assurance and control activities for right first-time delivery.
• Identify quality improvements and influence business changes to improve operations.

Job description

Overview

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 provides assurance that requirements are met to achieve the effective and efficient delivery of our mission at best value for our customers, as well as identifying improvements and facilitating delivery of quality improvements that deliver sustained benefits.

Responsibilities

To plan, evaluate, verify and certify quality, proposing and embedding improvements where necessary to ensure delivery is effective, minimises 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 the 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 an important underpinning factor to overall safety standards on site. Processes for certification and verification are also extremely detailed due to the regulatory requirements of the nuclear industry.

Qualifications

• Graduate in relevant discipline OR professional qualification (e.g. CQI Diploma (Level 5)).
• Membership of the CQI or other relevant professional body.
• Internal Auditor
• 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

Additional information

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