Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quality Engineer
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About The Role
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Quality Engineer to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17km of complex Highways construction, complex utility diversions, and a scheme-wide, industry leading approach to carbon reduction.
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work and play.
As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will lead, embed, and continuously improve quality management across one or more complex projects, ensuring that project delivery consistently meets client, contractual, regulatory, and business management system requirements.
What you'll be doing
- Lead and assure project quality delivery, ensuring compliance with client, contractual, regulatory, and business management system requirements.
- Develop, maintain, and embed project quality plans, integrating client and project-specific requirements into ways of working.
- Monitor and report quality performance, driving continual improvement and reduction in cost of quality through effective corrective actions.
- Lead quality assurance activities, including audits, reviews, and investigations, ensuring robust root cause analysis and learning.
- Coach and influence delivery teams and supply chain, building quality capability and promoting a right-first-time culture.
Who we're looking for
- Extensive experience in quality management within major civil engineering or highways projects, with a proven track record of delivering compliant, right-first-time outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 and quality management systems, including practical experience supporting internal and external audits.
- Demonstrable experience leading quality assurance activities across complex projects, including investigations, non-conformance management, and corrective actions.
- Experience working with senior project leadership, clients, and supply chain partners, providing credible challenge and assurance.
- Experience in coaching and developing quality capability, including mentoring junior quality engineers or advisors.
- Confident in working with Senior Management and able to challenge existing ways of working to support business improvement.
- Build strong relationships with delivery teams and project managers.
- Training and facilitation skills and experience.
- A formal qualification in Quality Management e.g. Diploma in Quality Management (UK Chartered Quality Institute, British Standards Institute or equivalent).
- Either a CQI Member or working towards membership.
- Previous experience of managing a team.
- Competent user of modern office computer systems e.g. Microsoft Office.
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Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate:
- An attractive / negotiated salary.
- 42 core base hours per week.
- Company car.
- Hybrid working available.
- 25 days annual leave.
- Pension savings schemes.
- A whole host of other BB staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers etc).
- Refer a friend bonus scheme.
- Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.
Why work for us
Why join us?
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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:
- 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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
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.
We are 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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