Area Quality Lead

JOB TITLE: Area Quality Lead (QAS20002)

LOCATION: Bridgwater, Somerset

CONTRACT: Perm

Competitive salary + Car/Car Allowance + Flexible Benefits

Summary

We have a vacancy for an Area Quality Lead to join us on the MEH Alliance working on the Hinkley Point C construction project.  This role is critical to ensuring the successful delivery of a nuclear new build project by maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance within their designated area of responsibility. 

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of the quality management system within your designated area, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and project specifications.
• Develop review, and approve QA procedures, work instructions, and quality plans specific to your area, ensuring they are aligned with project requirements and best practices. 
• Conduct or oversee quality control inspections and audits to verify compliance with QA requirements, identifying non-conformances, and implementing corrective and preventive actions as necessary. 
• Manage the documentation process within your area, to ensure the availability of accurate and up-to-date records for regulatory compliance and project traceability. 
• Provide training and guidance to project personnel, on QA procedures, standards, and requirements applicable to your area, promoting a culture of quality awareness and continuous improvement. 
• Identify potential quality risks and hazards within your area, conducting risk assessments, and implementing risk mitigation measures to prevent quality issues and ensure the safety and reliability of the nuclear facility. 
• Ensure compliance with applicable nuclear regulatory requirements, codes, standards, and licensing conditions related to quality assurance and quality control activities within your area of responsibility. 
• Coordinate with other project disciplines, such as engineering, construction, and commissioning, to address interface issues, resolve conflicts, and facilitate smooth integration of quality assurance processes across different project phases.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to quality assurance and quality control activities within your area, preparing regular progress reports, and communicating with project management regarding QA status, issues, and recommendations for improvement.
• Be responsible for development of ITP’s to meet construction schedule requirements.
• Audit all project activities as per project schedule and ad hoc.
• Champion foreign material exclusion, preventing ingress or entrapment of non-specified materials, loose items or debris in equipment and /or systems during assembly and testing.
• Issue of NCR’s where required and facilitating construction in closure of internal and client issued NCR’s. Maintaining NCR/CAR Lessons Learned logs.

Requirements:

• Qualifications in an Engineering discipline, ONC / HNC / HND (or equivalent experience).   
• Preferred membership of Chartered Quality Institute. 
• QMS 2018 Lead Auditor certification, preferred registered with IRCA. 
• Experience in progressively responsible quality engineering positions, within major projects
• Nuclear experience and working within an alliance would be beneficial.

Benefits:

We're always evolving our benefits to ensure we're attracting and retaining great people.  Some of what you can expect includes: 

• Car/Car allowance
• Salary sacrifice car scheme (Hybrid/Electric Vehicle)
• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.
• Personal development programme

Next Steps: 

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.  

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met. 

NG Bailey on the Hinkley Point C Project:

We are working across both Hinkley Point C units to deliver the infrastructure that will power the station and its operations, creating 1,000 jobs including many specialist engineers. Works include the design and installation of circa 76,000 cables totalling over 3,000km in length; over 180km of cable containment support systems; fire and environmental sealing; design and installation of earthing systems, and specialist packages associated with data acquisition and plant control.

About Us: 

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies. 

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.