Quality Manager (Sizewell C)

EDF; Sizewell; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF is seeking an experienced E&EW Quality Manager for Sizewell C to lead quality assurance across enabling and earthworks. You will supervise audits, drive quality plans and ensure compliance with ITPs and standards on a nationally significant infrastructure project.

You will manage non-conformances and root cause investigations, coordinate with contracting teams, and help deliver safe, right-first-time handover of major assets. Experience in civil infrastructure is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering quality management on major civil/infrastructure projects.
• Ability to lead audits, inspections and assurance activities.
• Capability to interpret standards and translate requirements into practical site controls.

Responsibilities

• Act as deputy to the Quality Lead, supporting quality strategy and daily 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 ITPs, quality plans and assurance arrangements are implemented.
• Monitor quality performance, identify trends and provide recommendations.
• Support certification, compliance and handover of major assets.
• Promote a right-first-time culture across contractor interfaces.

Skills

Quality management

Auditing

Non-conformances

ITPs

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

ISO 9001 Lead Auditor

CQI/ICE member

Job description

Contract Partner Company: Civil Works Alliance (CWA)

Employing Company: CWA

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Quality Manager (Sizewell C) CWA Sizewell C

The Civil Works Alliance is seeking an experienced E&EW Quality Manager to play a key role in delivering the Sizewell C project. 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

• 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.

Desirable:

• 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.

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.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home‑grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low‑carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low‑carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind‑boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.