Quality Manager - Rathdrum, Wicklow

Hollybank Trustees Ltd; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

23 days annual leave

Company Pension contributions

Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

Private Health Insurance contribution

Life and Disability cover

EAP for employees and their families

CPD & Chartership supports

Job summary

Suir Engineering, Rathdrum, Wicklow, is seeking a Quality Manager to drive a quality-focused culture on our pharmaceutical project. You will deploy quality policies, oversee the QA/QC function, and ensure compliant documentation and audits across sites.

You will lead continuous improvement, manage NCRs and lessons learned, and collaborate with project teams to uphold the highest quality standards in design, procurement and construction. This role offers broad exposure and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Trade/engineering background is essential.
• 10+ years professional experience in relevant fields.
• High level of technical knowledge across the construction industry.
• Understanding of off-site quality control requirements.
• Demonstrated capability in Quality Management and QA/QC practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, support, and drive the quality strategy for the business.
• Implement the Quality Policy and our management system including coaching for its use.
• Convene and deliver quality awareness workshops for new starts and projects.
• Promote a strong quality culture through training and information sessions with project teams.
• Ensure all relevant standards and procedures are available and training is completed.
• Lead document management to meet GDP requirements and audit readiness.
• Provide leadership in QA/QC and ‘Right first time’ delivery across projects.
• Assist teams in drawing up Quality Plans and Inspection & Test Plans.

Skills

Quality Management

Auditor training

Quality Assurance

Construction quality

Education

Trade/engineering background

Job description

Location: On site / Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Engineering | General
Salary: Negotiable salary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Manager to support a Pharmaceutical project in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow.

Here in Suir Engineering we are a leading international provider of innovative Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Solutions. Our core sectors are Energy, Power and Renewables, Pharma, Food & Beverage, and Data Centres. We provide best in class contracting solutions with in-house, flexible resources capable of delivering a personable and consistent service to our customers. Over the past 40 years we have delivered projects for Irish and multinational clients across the globe. We are currently expanding significantly, and are delivering large scale projects across Ireland, the U.K, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.

Overall Role Objective

You will be responsible for promoting an industry leading, quality orientated culture and learning across the business while at the same time ensuring that best practice is planned, implemented and shared effectively. The key focus of the role is supporting the delivery of construction quality and implementation of our business quality policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities/Duties

• Develop, support, and drive the quality strategy for the business.
• To implement the Quality Policy and our management system (including the coaching and guidance for its use)
• To convene and deliver quality awareness workshops for new starts and new projects starts.
• Promote a strong quality culture, through training, quality inductions and information sessions with project teams/managers, QA/QC site staff on construction details, products and installation.
• Ensure all relevant standards and procedures are available and training completed where required.
• Responsible for ensuring document management is at the highest standard, respecting client GDP requirements.
• Provide leadership and expertise in relation to QA/QC which fully embraces the principles of "Right first time".
• Assist the project teams in drawing up project Quality Plans and Inspection and Test Plans, to be implemented and monitored as the project proceeds.
• To promote better quality planning from our sub-contractors through their quality plans, inspection and test plans, quality inductions.
• Support project teams by reviewing details and physical works in progress at various stages of the construction cycle to ensure that we achieve the highest standard of quality in the works we deliver.
• Work with project teams and our supply chain ensuring lessons are shared among all interested parties to strive for continuous improvement of construction quality.
• Actively promote the use of NCR's, shared learnings and lessons learned.
• Attend meetings with the Operations Directors and other parent company Quality Advisors enabling a network of information and experiences.
• Represent Suir in meetings or interviews regarding construction quality.
• Manage the quality site audit schedule ensuring quality alignment.
• Carry out Internal Audits in support of our management system.
• Ensure we are in full compliance with our quality accreditations and facilitate External Audits
• Implementing root cause analysis, identifying appropriate corrective action in the event of non-conformances
• Engage with project teams to review supply chain quality issues and assist with resolution.
• Actively partake in all start up and close out meetings to facilitate focused risk mitigation discussions and lessons learned respectively.
• Tracks and ensures O&M are completed on time at the end of projects.
• Prepare case studies and bulletins on regional experiences of defects resolution and new product trials.
• Collating quality data and statistics from the sites and reporting on a monthly basis.
• Report on non-conformances or corrective actions and analyse and monitor trends.
• Assist in managing and maintaining the company Management System
• Any other reasonable and relevant duties as requested by your Manager, necessary to meet the ongoing needs of the company.

Qualifications / Skills

• A trade/engineering background is essential.
• Auditor training – not mandatory but preferred.
• 10+ years professional experience.
• A high level of technical knowledge across the construction industry.
• An understanding of requirements for off-site quality control.
• Demonstrated capability in Quality Management.
• Working knowledge of CQV a strong advantage.
• Experience on projects within Data Centers and other specialised industries is desirable.
• Team player and able to build and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Flexible to change and open to constructive feedback.
• Strong IT skills, with experience using digital construction platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage at various levels.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• An ability to educate and train others effectively on quality related matters.
• Able to work independently.
• Good problem-solving skills.

In return from Suir Engineering:

• 23 days annual leave.
• Company Pension contributions - no waiting periods.
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave.
• Private Health Insurance contribution.
• Life and Disability cover.
• EAP for employees and their families.
• Educational Assistance, CPD, Chartership supports and upskilling opportunities.
• Opportunities for international assignments to work on one of our European projects in Sweden, Denmark, or Germany.

• Our people are empowered to make changes to ensure a quality install through effective ways of working.
• Our people have a voice and feel empowered.
• We have an in-built culture of innovation, learning and continuous improvement.
• Value is delivered every step of the journey.Our efficient processes deliver value.
• We have a standard, consistent and fully integrated health, safety, environment, and quality system within the business.

Suir Engineering are an equal opportunities employer, we value our greatest asset …. our People