Balfour Beatty plc
Project Quality Manager
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Project Quality Manager
About The Role
Balfour Beatty is seeking a proactive and passionate Project Quality Manager to join our Regional Civils team on the landmark Net Zero Teesside (NZT) project in the North East on an 18-month fixed-term contract. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a pivotal role in one of the UK's most significant low-carbon infrastructure schemes, helping to drive quality excellence across all stages of project delivery.
As Project Quality Manager, you will work closely with our construction teams to ensure compliance with project quality requirements, championing a culture of continuous improvement and reinforcing our commitment to delivering projects Right First Time. You will provide expert guidance, support best practice across the project, and help embed robust quality processes that enhance performance and reduce avoidable errors.
This role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact by proactively sharing knowledge and lessons learned from both current and previous projects, fostering a positive quality culture and supporting the successful delivery of a complex, high-profile infrastructure programme. If you are passionate about driving quality standards, influencing project performance, and leaving a legacy on a nationally important project, we would love to hear from you.
Join us and help deliver a project that will support the UK's net zero ambitions while ensuring the highest standards of quality, compliance and operational excellence throughout the construction lifecycle.
What You'll Be Doing
Responsibilities
As Project Quality Manager, you will play a key role in driving quality performance across the Net Zero Teesside project by supporting teams to deliver work safely, efficiently and Right First Time. Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting project teams in meeting both client and Balfour Beatty quality requirements, while promoting best practice and sharing lessons learned across the project.
- Coordinating the quality function, working closely with the client’s quality team to ensure compliance, manage inspection activities and secure timely stage approvals.
- Producing regular quality reports and performance insights for the project leadership team to support informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Conducting site inspections and assurance activities to monitor compliance, identify opportunities for improvement, and provide guidance to project teams and supply chain partners.
- Working collaboratively with delivery teams to achieve defect-free handovers, ensuring a positive customer experience and a lasting project legacy.
- Facilitating internal and external audits, supporting auditors throughout the process and ensuring findings, actions and lessons learned are effectively communicated and embedded across the project.
- Promoting a positive quality culture that drives continuous improvement, reduces errors and enhances overall project performance.
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Who We're Looking For
Essential Experience & Attributes
- Experience delivering civil engineering or infrastructure projects, gained within either a design or construction environment.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels.
- A collaborative approach, with proven experience working within multidisciplinary project teams.
- The ability to influence positive behaviours, promote best practice, and champion a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
- A proactive mindset with strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to delivering work Right First Time.
Desirable
- Experience using digital quality and project management platforms such as BIM 360 Field, BIM 360, Autodesk Construction Cloud, or similar tools.
- Knowledge of digital construction and quality assurance systems within a major project environment.
Why Work For Us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
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About Us
With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
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