Senior Project Quality Engineer — Civil Construction

Empowergroup; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Empower Advisory UK, based in Plymouth, seeks a Senior Project Quality Engineer/Manager to support the Devonport project. You will lead quality activities, ensuring procedures, specifications and PEPs are followed on a heavy civil site for the Navy dockyard.

The role requires prior quality or civil construction experience, ISO 9001 knowledge, excellent communication, and the ability to work in regulated environments. British citizenship is required for this security‑critical project.

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality field or Civil Construction Engineering.

Responsibilities

• As Senior Project Quality Engineer, you will manage junior members of the Project Quality Team.
• Interface with delivery engineers, framework quality team and customer quality representatives.
• Implement and ensure adherence to project procedures, scope, specification, PEP and British/International Standards.
• Deliver quality briefings and training across the wider project team.
• Liaise with suppliers, subcontractors, procurement team & Stores Controller.
• Assist with writing Inspection Test Plans (ITP) and ensure they are followed with up-to-date evidence.
• Manage the compilation and review of quality documentation including Lifetime Quality Records and Product Approval Records.
• Manage Non-Conformance and product quarantine processes.
• Assist with stores control, stock management and product traceability, including product movements and Conformity checks.
• Send contractual communications to the customer via CEMAR.
• Maintain records and document control standards across the project.
• Co-operate with staff and customer representatives to resolve quality issues promptly.
• Assist the project team with ad-hoc duties as required.

Skills

Quality experience

ISO 9001

MS 365

Communication skills

Regulated environments

Attention to detail

Construction drawings

Standards compliance

Organisational skills

Tools

PDF editing

Job description

Empower Advisory UK, based in Plymouth, seeks a Senior Project Quality Engineer/Manager to support the Devonport project. You will lead quality activities, ensuring procedures, specifications and PEPs are followed on a heavy civil site for the Navy dockyard.

The role requires prior quality or civil construction experience, ISO 9001 knowledge, excellent communication, and the ability to work in regulated environments. British citizenship is required for this security‑critical project.