Senior Quality Engineer, Ground Engineering – Scotland

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering; Elgin; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive salary

Company car

25 days leave

Pension savings

Enhanced parental leave

Refer and Earn

Annual reviews

Job summary

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality management on the ASTI framework in Scotland. You will drive processes, coaching delivery teams and coordinating audits to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.

You will work with project teams to deliver high-quality assets and services, maintaining governance, and using digital quality tools to monitor performance and risks. The role emphasizes collaboration and leadership.

Qualifications

• Skilled Quality Management professional, with ability to implement associated methodologies, tools and applications.
• Level 4+ Qualification in Quality or Construction.
• CQI Practitioner Member (PCQI).
• ISO 9001 Lead Auditor trained.
• Ability to communicate effectively and build influential relationships with a variety of stakeholders (quality and non-quality).
• Gathers, analyses and evaluates facts whilst remaining objective and impartial.
• Ability to challenge existing methods and ways of thinking.
• Awareness of information management and change management principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise to project and work winning teams to facilitate the implementation of effective quality management processes.
• Monitor, analyse and report Quality performance relating to agreed business or project KPIs, communicating risks and opportunities.
• Ensure the customer and other standards’ requirements are clearly understood and that quality control mechanisms are in place that provide assurance that the asset and/or service delivers as designed/required.
• Coach and advise delivery teams in using the appropriate digital quality and governance systems, and managing issues as required.
• Maintain local quality processes as part of the Quality management system, ensuring processes remain effective, compliant, and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Lead local and supplier audits in line with programme objectives, and support with BB and external certification audits.
• Coordinate with others to produce and handover project and/or business quality deliverables.
• Implement quality development and training programmes for business / project teams and local quality resources.
• Encourage the sharing of good practice and learning to embed continual improvement.
• Contribute to the implementation of Management Review(s) and delivery of agreed actions.
• Undertake investigations of high-risk quality-related issues as required, ensuring robust corrective and preventive actions are identified.
• Implement continual improvement actions to support the delivery of quality-related strategic objectives as directed by local or senior leadership.

Skills

Quality management

Effective communication

Analytical thinking

Change management

Information management

Education

Level 4+ qualification in Quality or Construction

CQI Practitioner Member (PCQI)

ISO 9001 Lead Auditor trained

Job description

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality management on the ASTI framework in Scotland. You will drive processes, coaching delivery teams and coordinating audits to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.

You will work with project teams to deliver high-quality assets and services, maintaining governance, and using digital quality tools to monitor performance and risks. The role emphasizes collaboration and leadership.