Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quality Advisor (SQA)
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About The Role
To support Balfour Beatty in delivering the project in accordance with customer and stakeholder requirements, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, industry standards, regulatory requirements and Balfour Beatty's quality management systems.
The Senior Quality Advisor / Engineer will coordinate, support and monitor assurance activities across the project, ensuring effective implementation of quality processes, inspection and test plans, and compliance requirements. The role will work closely with operational teams, customers and supply chain partners to promote a culture of quality, continuous improvement and Right First Time delivery.
The successful candidate will play a key role in verifying compliance, supporting audits and assurance activities, managing quality-related issues, and ensuring robust quality controls are embedded throughout the project lifecycle.
What you'll be doing
- Support and coordinate project teams in developing the quality plans / inspection & test plans are being followed and that requirements are being met, and review those from the supply chain
- Coach and assist delivery teams in achieving the required deliverables, and managing issues as required, also providing Quality advice to our supply chain where appropriate
- Use existing systems to establish sample and benchmark plans to be established and agreed with customers and supply chain
- Implement and use the appropriate digital systems to monitor the performance of quality planning / production of quality deliverables / managing of issues against targets
- By using the principles of quality assurance, and where appropriate technical integrity, ensure the customer requirements are clearly understood and that quality control mechanisms are in place that provide assurance that the asset and/or service delivers as designed/required
- Coordinate project team in collating and delivering handover records as per customer requirements, on time
- Overseeing the maintenance of the Business Management System ensuring it reflects the latest project requirements, supporting delivery teams as required
- Implementation of the annual audit programme, carrying out local and supplier audits in line with its objectives, and supporting contracts with BB and external certification audits
- Coordinate with others to produce project and/or business quality deliverables as required
- Support the development of either project or business stream quality strategies and plans and the delivery and implementation of measurement frameworks, programmes and actions across the scope of services and full project lifecycle
- Assist in training, coaching and developing quality skills in business / project streams, including sharing lessons learned
- Support the establishment of a continual improvement culture
- Support the undertaking of specific investigations and/or reporting on quality related issues as required
- Support the use of appropriate digital toolset to support the project governance and quality assurance/ measures on the project, including training of those tools
- Work towards gaining the Chartered member grade of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)
- Live the Balfour Beatty Values
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and Right First Time
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Who we're looking for
- An understanding and commitment to Quality Management
- Prior Quality experience and/or relevant operational / technical experience to meet industry sector demand
- Level 4+ Qualification in Quality, Construction or Manufacturing (relevant industry)
- Has an enquiring and questioning approach to audit work and experience in managing accreditation audit
- Experience in driving business improvement and leading change within a business
- Has an ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts
- Can work to plans, programmes and budgets
- Pays attention to detail and sees things through to completion
- Is good at building relationships and can influence effectively
- Can deliver reports orally and written in an objective manner
- Ability to challenge existing methods and ways of thinking
- Able to work within a multi-discipline team
- Fully proficient in modern office computer systems and technology e.g. Office 365
- A CQI Practitioner and working towards Chartered status
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
- ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor trained
- Awareness of sector specific certifications and their requirements
- Experience in using Digital Progressive Assurance systems / Electronic Forms
- Operational experience in construction or asset management
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.
Why join us?
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
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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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