Quality Manager

Kier Group; Winchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Quality Manager for the Southern Region, based in Southampton. The role focuses on QA compliance across pre-construction and delivery teams, ensuring quality throughout projects and maximising customer satisfaction and profitability.

The post offers a permanent, full-time position with a 42.5‑hour work week. The successful candidate will have solid knowledge of ISO management standards, a proactive, organised approach, strong communication skills, and a full driving

Qualifications

• Understanding of ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 management system standards.
• Proactive, highly organised and accurate with good attention to detail.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Hold a Full Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Support Pre-Construction & Operational teams to ensure right‑first‑time quality and specification compliance.
• Ensure compliance and management of Quality Control Systems, including auditing, risk management, investigations, complaint handling, report writing and training.
• Ensure ISO‑accredited integrated management systems are implemented and monitored; identify opportunities and drive improvements.
• Identify areas of concern, support contract teams to deliver improvements, analyze root causes of defects and implement corrective actions.
• Drive improvements in Performance Excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

Quality management

ISO standards

Quality control

Attention to detail

Communication

Job description

We are currently looking to recruit a Quality Manager to support the Southern Region.

Location: Southampton.

Hours: Permanent – 42.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As Quality Manager you’ll be working within the team, supporting the pre-construction and operational delivery teams with QA compliance & to manage the areas of quality throughout all the projects, to the required quality while maximising customers’ satisfaction, project operating margins and the area’s profitability.

Your day to day will include:

• Supporting and assisting the Pre-Construction & Operational teams to ensure a right first-time approach in quality management and specification compliance,
• Ensuring compliance and operational management in Quality Control Systems, including auditing, risk management, investigations, complaint handling, report writing and Quality related training,
• Ensuring the ISO accredited integrated management systems are effectively implemented & monitored, identifying opportunities, and implementing changes to drive continuous improvement,
• Identifying areas of concern and supporting the contract teams to deliver improvements and analyse the root cause of defects and nonconformities, implement corrective action and update processes with lessons learned,
• Driving improvements in Performance Excellence – always working to be better.

What are we looking for?

This role of Quality Manager is great for you if you:

• Have an understanding of ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 management system standards,
• Work on own initiative, be proactive and highly organised and display a high standard of accuracy and attention to detail,
• Can effectively balance tasks and responsibilities to ensue all work is completed in a timely manner,
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills,
• Hold a Full Driving Licence.

Rewards and benefits

We’re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.