Senior Quality Engineer

Are you passionate about ensuring quality and safety in a nuclear environment? Do you thrive in a challenging role that requires meticulous attention to detail and excellent communication skills? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our client’s team as a Senior Quality Engineer.

Your responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• Lead on the provision of training, support, and guidance on quality processes and nuclear safety culture fundamentals to project teams and suppliers.
• To manage out outstanding legacy quality paperwork for designated projects.
• Lead weekly meetings with the client to provide quality progress updates and maintain meeting minutes.
• Oversee the review and update of quality documents and processes to align with requirements.
• Manage the conduct weekly inspections, including onsite inspections and quality documentation inspections.
• Monitor and follow up on the progression of non-conformance reports, field change requests, and requests for information.
• Review compiled quality reports before submission with the team.
• Manage the quality tracker.
• Raise surveillance observation notifications when required.
• Promote a Right First Time and Nuclear Safety culture to project teams and suppliers, understanding key risk areas and opportunities for improvement.
• Promote value added industry best practice and innovative solutions under continual improvement.  
• Perform statistical analysis on identified deviations and provide feedback for improvement.
• Provide senior guidance and support on quality deliverables such as inspection and test plans, quality control plans, and procedures.
• Manage the compilation and submission of Lifetime Quality Record Packs.
• Manage the identification of, and raising of non-conformances.
• Manage the production of quality installation record maps.
• Full review of test results and certificates for compliance.
• Act as a point of contact for all quality-related matters with senior stakeholders.
• Oversee the uploads of as-built drawings from the team, and ensure proper documentation.
• Line management, coaching, and mentoring responsibilities of Quality Engineers/Controllers

Person specification:

•  Computer literacy, including Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
• A degree in an engineering or science discipline
• Minimum five years’ experience in a construction/ heavy industry environment Quality Engineer role
• Experience of using Fieldview.
• Strong knowledge of civil construction.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to multitask and prioritise workload.
• Ability to read and understand technical drawings.
• Demonstratable understanding of British Standards.
• Knowledge and experience of ISO 9001:2015.
• Understanding of QRA 1, QRA 2, and QRA 3 works.
• Ability to cultivate good working relationships with site engineers, operational delivery leads, and project managers.
• Internal auditing experience.
• Desirable – Team Management & Leadership experience

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