Quality Lead
Balfour Beatty plc
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Job summary
Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a senior Quality Lead for its Marine and Tunnelling division. You will provide direction across design, procurement, manufacture, construction and handover, ensuring compliance with project, regulatory and contractual requirements.
You will lead the quality team, drive assurance activities, and promote a culture of continuous improvement, safety and right-first-time delivery within a major infrastructure programme.
Qualifications
- Demonstrable quality leadership within major civil engineering, nuclear or similarly regulated infrastructure projects.
- Expert understanding of quality management systems, quality planning, assurance arrangements and progressive assurance throughout construction delivery.
- Comprehensive knowledge of nuclear safety culture principles and organisational learning in a regulated environment.
- Proven ability to identify, investigate and resolve systemic quality issues, driving learning and sustained performance improvement.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary quality teams and influencing delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Provide quality leadership to the Marine and Tunnelling Leadership Team, supporting delivery of safe, compliant and right-first-time outcomes.
- Lead the M&T quality team and establish clear priorities, responsibilities and expectations aligned with delivery risks and programme objectives.
- Promote a strong quality and nuclear safety culture across M&T, ensuring quality considerations are integrated into planning and operational decision making.
- Support delivery teams and suppliers in achieving quality expectations through visible leadership and coaching.
- Ensure effective implementation of the Quality Management System and associated quality arrangements throughout the scope.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Quality Lead is the senior quality leader for the Marine and Tunnelling (M&T) section, accountable for implementing Alliance quality requirements and ensuring safe, compliant and right-first-time delivery across the M&T scope.
As a member of the M&T Leadership Team, the role provides quality leadership, advice and independent challenge to support delivery objectives while ensuring compliance with project, regulatory and contractual requirements.
The role leads the M&T quality team and drives the effective application of quality management arrangements, progressive assurance, certification and continuous improvement throughout design, procurement, manufacture, construction and handover activities.
Working in partnership with the Alliance Head of Quality, the Quality Lead translates Alliance quality strategy into practical arrangements within M&T and provides assurance that quality risks, performance trends and organisational learning are identified and effectively managed.
The role may be required to represent the Head of Quality on specific matters, committees or forums within delegated authority.
Provide quality leadership to the Marine and Tunnelling Leadership Team, supporting delivery of safe, compliant and right-first-time outcomes.
Lead the M&T quality team and establish clear priorities, responsibilities and expectations aligned with delivery risks and programme objectives.
Promote a strong quality and nuclear safety culture across M&T, ensuring quality considerations are integrated into planning and operational decision making.
Support delivery teams and suppliers in achieving quality expectations through visible leadership, coaching and constructive challenge.
Provide timely advice to the M&T Technical Director and the Alliance Head of Quality regarding quality performance, risks and emerging issues.
Ensure effective implementation of the CWA Quality Management System and associated quality arrangements throughout the M&T scope.
Provide leadership oversight of compliance, graded assurance, audit, surveillance, non-conformance, corrective action and management review, including nuclear safety classified works and supply-chain activities.
Ensure independent assessments, inspections, quality reviews and certification are planned and delivered in accordance with programme milestones, providing reliable evidence of compliance and readiness.
Establish meaningful performance measures and assurance insight, identifying systemic risk, directing targeted intervention and reporting clearly to client, section and alliance leadership.
Lead the identification, investigation and resolution of significant quality issues and systemic weaknesses, ensuring lessons are translated into updated processes, stronger controls and improved section capability.
Ensure personnel undertaking quality-critical activities are suitably appointed and remain qualified, experienced and competent.
Drive organisational learning through structured review, lessons learned and knowledge sharing.
Provide input to resource planning and capability requirements for the M&T scope.
Demonstrable quality leadership within major civil engineering, nuclear or similarly regulated infrastructure projects.
Expert understanding of quality management systems, quality planning, assurance arrangements and progressive assurance throughout construction delivery.
Comprehensive knowledge of nuclear safety culture principles, intelligent customer capability and organisational learning in a regulated environment.
Proven ability to identify, investigate and resolve systemic quality issues, driving learning and sustained performance improvement across delivery teams and suppliers.
Strong understanding of the asset lifecycle from design and procurement through construction, progressive assurance, certification and handover.
Experience leading multidisciplinary quality teams and influencing delivery teams, suppliers and technical stakeholders to achieve safe, compliant and right-first-time outcomes.
Practical knowledge of audit, surveillance, supplier oversight, performance monitoring and quality risk management.
Ability to analyse quality performance data, identify trends and drive targeted interventions to improve delivery performance.
Strong communication, coaching and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to provide constructive challenge and influence at all organisational levels.
Ability to build capability within delivery teams through coaching, mentoring, training and sharing of lessons learned.
Degree qualified in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management or related discipline.
Chartered professional status in quality, engineering or an equivalent discipline.
ISO 9001 Lead Auditor or equivalent quality auditing qualification.
Significant experience of quality leadership within major civil engineering, nuclear or other highly regulated infrastructure programmes.
Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams across multiple scopes and locations and developing and implementing effective quality processes, assurance frameworks, capability and culture.
Experience of senior client, regulatory, certification-body and supply-chain engagement, for nuclear safety classified works.
Experience supporting client, regulator and third-party assurance activities within a major project environment.
Experience in major tunnelling projects is highly desirable.
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high-speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point C. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.
From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com
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