Quality Manager - Brighton

Balfour Beatty; England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Quality Manager to join their Regional Buildings team in England. This pivotal role involves managing project quality plans, conducting inspections, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. Candidates should have experience in construction projects and strong communication skills. The position offers flexible working arrangements, with remote options and a comprehensive benefits package, including paid annual leave and family-friendly policies.

Benefits

Smart working with flexible start and finish times

25 days annual leave

Family friendly policies including maternity/adoption leave

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering construction projects, either in design or construction.
• Ability to make and maintain healthy working relationships.
• Comfortable working with Senior Management and challenging existing ways of working.
• Capable of working within a multi-discipline team.
• Able to manage own calendar efficiently.
• Travel may be necessary for factory inspections and quality forums.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the Project Quality Plan and ensure compliance.
• Check and verify that Inspection and Test Plans are suitable.
• Ensure all materials have been assessed and accepted.
• Review records to ensure appropriateness and identify gaps.
• Ensure non-conformance procedures are followed.
• Undertake regular inspections of the works.
• Drive best practices and share lessons for improvement.
• Work with the project team for a defect-free handover.
• Generate reports for the project leadership.

Skills

Project Experience

Strong Communication Skills

Leadership Confidence

Team Collaboration

Self-Motivated

Job description

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About the role

Join Balfour Beatty as a Quality Manager

Balfour Beatty is offering an exciting opportunity for a Quality Manager to become part of our Regional Buildings team, contributing to the landmark University of Sussex, West Slopes Project.

In this pivotal role, you'll champion our "Right First Time" ethos, driving continual improvement across the project and beyond. You'll be a key partner to our construction team-sharing knowledge, embedding lessons learned, and fostering a strong quality culture that reduces errors and enhances performance. As part of the Regional Buildings quality team, you'll help shape how we manage quality across the wider business, making a lasting impact on both the project and our future success.

What you'll be doing

As Quality Manager, you will manage:

• Planning for Quality: Maintain the Project Quality Plan and ensure we are prepared for compliance with our ongoing and upcoming tasks.
• Inspection and Test Plans: Check and verify that ITPs are suitable for the works,
  capture our acceptance criteria and are delivered in time, as per our Project Quality
  Plan.
• Materials: Ensure all materials being incorporated into the works have been assessed, are accompanied by the required information and have been accepted in accordance with our Material Approval Procedure.
• Records: Undertake reviews of the records we generate such as checklists, testing results and diaries to ensure they are appropriate, any gaps are identified and that we're maintaining a Golden Thread of information.
• Issue Management: Ensure our non-conformance procedures are being followed, all issues are being recorded and actions are taken to prevent recurrence.
• Inspections: Undertake regular inspections of the works to identify areas for improvement, supporting teams and supply chains with necessary assistance.
• Promote Continuous Improvement: Drive best practices and share lessons to achieve better outcomes, sometimes delivering training to project teams and the supply chain.
• Ensure Smooth Handovers: Work with project team to compile the projects H&S file and O&M manual, enabling a defect‑free handover and leaving a positive legacy.
• Produce Regular Reports: Generate reports for the project leadership, highlighting best practices, areas for improvement, and communicating quality performance.
• Implement Quality Systems: Support the project by implementing our quality systems and processes and contribute to the delivery of Regional Buildings quality strategy and action plan.

Who we're looking for

Essential Personal Qualities and Experience:

• Project Experience: Experience in delivering construction projects, either in design or construction.
• Strong Communication Skills: Ability to make and maintain healthy working relationships.
• Leadership Confidence: Comfortable working with Senior Management and challenging existing ways of working to support business improvement.
• Team Collaboration: Capable of working within a multi-discipline team.
• Self‑Motivated: Able to manage own calendar efficiently.
• Travel: Travel may sometimes be necessary for factory inspections and quality forums.

Why work for us

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.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• 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...

About us

Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]