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Laing O'Rourke

Project Quality Manager

Preston
Posted about 23 hours ago
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Help deliver infrastructure that creates lasting social impact

Laing O'Rourke is delivering major redevelopment works at HMP Garth and HMP Wymott, helping create modern, resilient facilities that support the UK's justice system for the future.

Initially based from our Bicester office before transitioning to site, this is an opportunity to contribute to a complex and meaningful programme that will leave a lasting legacy for both the local community and the wider public sector.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Project Quality Manager who can bring people together, build trusted relationships and help teams achieve excellent outcomes.

As a key member of the project team, you'll lead quality, assurance and continuous improvement activities across the project. Working closely with colleagues, delivery partners and stakeholders, you'll help embed a proactive quality culture that supports safe, efficient and successful delivery.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Leading project quality and assurance activities throughout delivery
  • Building strong relationships across project teams, supply chain partners and stakeholders
  • Supporting teams to achieve right-first-time outcomes
  • Using data and insight to identify risks, trends and opportunities for improvement
  • Driving continuous improvement initiatives and sharing lessons learned
  • Supporting governance, compliance and assurance activities
  • Helping develop a collaborative culture where quality is everyone's responsibility

What We're Looking For

We're interested in people who can influence, collaborate and deliver positive outcomes in complex environments.

Construction Experience Is Not Essential.

You may have developed your expertise in:

  • Quality Management
  • Assurance or Compliance
  • Governance or Risk
  • Operational Excellence
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Audit or Regulatory Environments
  • Quality Systems or Process Improvement

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We welcome applications from professionals working in sectors such as:

  • Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals
  • Manufacturing
  • Energy and Utilities
  • Defence
  • Aerospace
  • Food Production
  • Transport and Logistics
  • Science and Research
  • Financial Services
  • Other regulated or quality-critical industries

Most Importantly, You'll Bring

  • Experience working within a regulated or complex environment
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills
  • The ability to influence and collaborate across diverse teams
  • A continuous improvement mindset
  • Confidence using data and insight to support decision-making
  • A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach
  • A commitment to supporting others and fostering a positive team culture

Why Join Laing O'Rourke?

This is an opportunity to be part of a project that delivers genuine public benefit while developing your career on a complex and high-profile programme.

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  • Contribute to an important national infrastructure programme
  • Work alongside experts from a range of disciplines
  • Influence project performance and ways of working
  • Develop your career within a leading engineering and construction organisation
  • Help create facilities designed to serve future generations

We Value Different Perspectives

Some of the strongest quality professionals have developed their expertise outside construction. Different experiences, fresh ideas and transferable skills help us solve complex challenges and achieve better outcomes.

We recognise that careers don't always follow a traditional path. If this opportunity excites you and you believe your experience could add value, we'd encourage you to apply.

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Diversity & Inclusion

At Laing O'Rourke, we're committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected and supported to achieve their potential. We welcome applications from talented people of all backgrounds and experiences.

Ready to make an impact?

Apply today and help deliver a project that will make a lasting difference to people, communities and society.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About Us

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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Skills

Quality Management
Assurance
Continuous Improvement
Stakeholder Engagement
Risk Management
Compliance Governance
Audit
Process Improvement
Data Analysis
Relationship Building
Operational Excellence
Project Quality Leadership

Location

Preston, England, United Kingdom

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