Quality Manager

CWA: Civil Works Alliance; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading salaries

Pension scheme

Generous annual leave entitlements

Flexible benefits

Job summary

The Civil Works Alliance (CWA) is seeking a Quality Manager to lead quality assurance across enabling and earthworks activities for Sizewell C. You will work under the Quality Lead, guiding site teams, contractors, and supply chain partners to ensure right-first-time delivery.

Experience in major civil infrastructure projects, strong QA leadership, and ability to translate standards into site controls are essential. The role offers a path to influence across a nationally significant project.

Qualifications

• Significant quality management or senior quality engineering experience in major civil/infrastructure projects.
• Practical construction experience across earthworks, drainage, highways, utilities or enabling works.
• Experience implementing Quality Plans, ITPs and assurance frameworks across delivery and supply chain.
• Experience managing audits, non-conformances and corrective actions to closure.
• Ability to interpret specifications and contractual requirements into practical site controls.

Responsibilities

• Deputise for the Enabling & Earthworks Quality Lead and support quality strategy and daily activities.
• Provide visible quality leadership to project teams, contractors, and supply chain partners.
• Drive the Quality Management System across enabling and earthworks activities.
• Lead audits, inspections, assessments and assurance activities.
• Manage non-conformances, corrective actions and root-cause investigations.
• Ensure ITPs, quality plans and assurance arrangements are implemented.
• Monitor quality performance, identify trends and provide recommendations.
• Support certification, compliance and handover of major assets.

Skills

Quality management

Senior quality engineering

Civil engineering projects

Earthworks

Audit management

Contractual interpretation

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

CQI member

ISO 9001 Lead Auditor

Job description

Quality Manager Opportunity with the Civil Works Alliance (CWA), Supporting Sizewell C

As part of the CWA (Civil Works Alliance), you will support the building of Sizewell C. Sizewell C will be a 3.2-gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes and will play a key role in our energy future, supplying reliable, clean electricity for at least 60 years. This role will be within the Enabling and Earthwork Section.

What will you do?

Quality Manager . Reporting to the Enabling & Earthworks Quality Lead, you will provide leadership, assurance and technical quality expertise across a diverse programme of enabling and earthworks activities, helping ensure safe, compliant and right-first-time delivery. This role acts as deputy to the Quality Lead and offers the opportunity to influence quality performance across a nationally significant infrastructure project.

The Role

As the Quality Manager,

you will:

• Act as deputy to the Enabling & Earthworks Quality Lead, supporting quality strategy and day-to-day team activities.
• Provide visible quality leadership to project teams, contractors and supply chain partners.
• Drive implementation of the Quality Management System across enabling and earthworks activities.
• Lead audits, inspections, assessments and assurance activities.
• Manage non-conformances, corrective actions and root cause investigations.
• Ensure Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs), quality plans and assurance arrangements are effectively implemented.
• Monitor quality performance, identify trends and provide actionable recommendations.
• Support certification, compliance and successful handover of major infrastructure assets.
• Promote a strong right-first-time culture across multiple work fronts and complex contractor interfaces.

What are we looking for?

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Significant quality management or senior quality engineering experience within major civil engineering, infrastructure or earthworks projects
• Practical construction experience across civil engineering disciplines such as earthworks, drainage, highways, utilities, ground engineering or enabling works
• Experience implementing Quality Plans, Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs) and assurance frameworks across delivery and supply chain organisations
• Strong experience managing audits, inspections, non-conformances, corrective actions and quality records through to successful closure
• Experience coordinating or leading quality teams within large-scale construction environments
• Ability to interpret specifications, standards and contractual requirements and translate these into practical site controls
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence project teams, contractors, designers and suppliers
• Excellent reporting, analytical and risk management capabilities
• Experience supporting certification, compliance and handover activities on major infrastructure projects

Desirable Experience

• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management or a related discipline.
• ISO 9001 Lead Auditor qualification (or equivalent).
• Professional membership of CQI, ICE or another relevant institution.
• Experience within regulated or safety-critical sectors such as nuclear, rail, highways, aviation, energy or water.

The CWA is a single delivery organisation made of up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke - which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.