Quality Engineer

Randstad CPE; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Quality Engineer for a temporary contract in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The role involves ensuring the effectiveness of the quality management system and implementing quality improvements on a prestigious rail project. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and proven experience in a rail environment. This opportunity is ideal for professionals looking to contribute to high-stakes projects.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Temporary contract benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a live rail environment with similar complexity and risk.
• Ability to form effective working relationships with stakeholders.
• Membership of the CQI or other relevant professional body.

Responsibilities

• Assure the quality management system is adequate and effective.
• Plan, evaluate, verify, and certify quality improvements.
• Deploy quality assurance and control activities.

Skills

Communication

Quality Assurance

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Graduate in relevant discipline or CQI Diploma (Level 5)

Job description

Overview

My client, an industry leading tier one civil engineering and construction firm are 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 facilitate delivery of quality improvements that deliver sustained benefits.
• 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 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 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.

Candidate requirements

• 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

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Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business

Job Info

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Company:

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire

Competitive

Posted: Sep 15th 2025

Closes: Oct 16th 2025

Sector: Other

Contract: Temporary

Hours: Full Time