Quality Management Lead: Civils

Overview

In this role you drive the delivery of project quality across the full lifecycle for HPC, ensuring adherence to QA/QC requirements in a complex, regulated supply chain. You work within the Quality Management Team to implement PQCPs and governance, collaborating with internal stakeholders and external inspection partners. You will lead audits, ensure manufacturing surveillance, and enable quality release of equipment to site. This opportunity lets you shape quality culture on a landmark nuclear project in a supportive, inclusive environment.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive reward package
• private medical cover
• digital GP access
• enhanced family-friendly policies
• employee assistance and wellbeing support
• professional development and memberships funding

Responsibilities

• Drive resolution of quality implementation issues and support continuous improvement
• Review, accept and monitor Contractor Quality Assurance Plans from the supply chain
• Identify audit needs across the supply chain; coordinate audits and close findings
• Produce Project Quality Control Plans for each contract
• Ensure deployment of key quality arrangements/specifications in line with PQCPs
• Lead Lifetime Quality Records reviews
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders and external inspection entities
• Ensure graded manufacturing surveillance is applied based on safety function and project importance
• Establish and verify inspection witness/hold points within supplier ITPs / Quality Plans / follow-up documentation
• Coordinate and lead client review/acceptance of relevant manufacturing documentation
• Support review/acceptance of end-of-manufacturing and end-of-construction status reporting
• Own review and delivery of end-of-manufacturing records to enable quality release of equipment to the HPC construction site

Key requirements

• HNC/HND or degree in a relevant science/engineering discipline
• Broad experience implementing quality solutions across complex projects/supply chains
• Proven track record delivering results and driving issues to resolution
• Leadership experience in QA/QC within nuclear or another safety-critical industry
• Strong stakeholder management capability in multi-cultural, multi-party environments

• Stakeholder management
• Leadership
• Cross-cultural collaboration
• Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC)
• Contractor Quality Assurance Plans (CQAPs)
• Project Quality Control Plans (PQCPs)

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