Quality Manager - Grays

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

Job summary

A leading infrastructure firm in Grays seeks a Quality Manager for a major project. The role involves delivering the Quality Strategy, managing quality metrics, and conducting audits. The ideal candidate should have strong leadership skills and experience in quality management. This position offers competitive benefits, including flexible working options and comprehensive leave policies.

Benefits

Smart working options

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering Quality Strategy.
• Proficient in managing project quality metrics.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the Quality Strategy of the project.
• Prepare and implement the Quality Management Plan.
• Conduct audits and report on quality metrics.

Skills

Quality leadership

Right First-Time culture

Project Quality Management Plan

Quality training and coaching

Quality metrics monitoring

Audit and surveillance

Root cause analysis

Inspection and test plans

Job description

About the role

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Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Quality Manager to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17km of complex Highways construction, complex utility diversions, and a scheme-wide, industry leading approach to carbon reduction.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a high‑impact energy project. If you're passionate about driving high standards, delivering meaningful impact, and being part of something that truly matters - we'd love to hear from you.

Our work powers progress, connects communities, and leaves a lasting legacy. With sustainability, innovation, and quality at the heart of everything we do, we're proud to lead some of the UK's most critical infrastructure developments.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing quality leadership to deliver the Quality Strategy
• Establish a Right First‑Time culture on the project, utilising the BB Group material
• Prepare, implement, and maintain the project Quality Management Plan(s) and associated processes that deliver Right First Time to project specification and requirements
• Producing project Assurance Plan(s) to support the delivery of project deliverables, handover, and Health & Safety File requirements
• Establishing quality related training, coaching & skills processes so that the project teams understand and manage the delivery quality expectations
• Driving the quality metrics and monitoring and reporting on project performance relating to Quality and agree (and monitor) management actions to drive performance improvements
• Conduct audits, surveillances, and site quality tours, reporting on the results, and managing findings to closure
• Interfacing with audit function to support local processes
• Supporting the business unit external accreditation process (including ISO9001 and industry licences) to ensure it can operate in its chosen sector
• Undertaking investigations and implement effective root cause analysis where applicable
• Supporting the construction team establish inspection and test plans, through training, and progressive reviewing and commenting
• Establish an approach to manage quality related matters with the Supply Chain, that also includes delivering training on specialist quality subjects

Who we’re looking for

• Providing quality leadership to deliver the Quality Strategy
• Establish a Right First‑Time culture on the project, utilising the BB Group material
• Prepare, implement, and maintain the project Quality Management Plan(s) and associated processes that deliver Right First Time to project specification and requirements
• Producing project Assurance Plan(s) to support the delivery of project deliverables, handover, and Health & Safety File requirements
• Establishing quality related training, coaching & skills processes so that the project teams understand and manage the delivery quality expectations
• Driving the quality metrics and monitoring and reporting on project performance relating to Quality and agree (and monitor) management actions to drive performance improvements
• Conduct audits, surveillances, and site quality tours, reporting on the results, and managing findings to closure
• Interfacing with audit function to support local processes
• Supporting the business unit external accreditation process (including ISO9001 and industry licences) to ensure it can operate in its chosen sector
• Undertaking investigations and implement effective root cause analysis where applicable

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

Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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]