Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Quality Manager
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About The Role
Lead Quality. Drive Nuclear Safety. Shape the Future.
At Balfour Beatty, we're delivering some of the UK's most critical and complex infrastructure projects. We're looking for an exceptional Senior Quality Manager to lead the deployment of our Quality and Nuclear Safety Strategy across the Programme & Project Partners (PPP) framework at Sellafield.
This is a pivotal leadership role where you'll champion a culture of quality excellence, provide strategic assurance across major programmes, and ensure products and services important to quality and nuclear safety are delivered Right First Time.
If you're passionate about quality, thrive in highly regulated environments and want to make a genuine impact on nationally important projects, we'd love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the implementation of the Quality and Nuclear Safety Strategy across the PPP framework.
- Promote a strong quality and nuclear safety culture where teams are empowered to raise concerns, challenge decisions and drive continual improvement.
- Provide independent quality leadership and assurance to project and functional leadership teams.
- Drive compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 19443, client requirements and industry best practice.
- Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing quality team, supporting talent development and succession planning.
- Establish and oversee risk-based assurance programmes across projects, functions and supply chain partners.
- Lead supplier quality governance, audits, surveillance and performance assessments.
- Drive initiatives to prevent Counterfeit, Fraudulent and Suspect Items (CFSI), protecting project integrity and nuclear safety.
- Develop meaningful quality performance reporting, metrics and insights to support effective decision making.
- Champion lessons learned, organisational learning and continuous improvement.
- Lead investigations into quality incidents and adverse trends, ensuring robust root cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
- Build trusted relationships with clients, regulators, industry bodies and supply chain partners.
- Ensure quality requirements are effectively integrated across procurement, design, engineering and construction activities.
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Who we're looking for
Essential
- Chartered Quality Professional (CQP MCQI) or actively working towards chartership.
- ISO 9001 Lead Auditor qualification.
- Significant quality management experience within highly regulated industries.
- Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary quality teams.
- Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 and ISO 19443 management systems.
- Experience within major infrastructure, nuclear, defence, energy or similarly regulated environments.
- Expertise in:
- Nuclear Safety Culture
- Supply Chain Assurance
- Risk-Based Thinking
- Root Cause Analysis
- Learning from Experience (LfE)
- CFSI Prevention
- Quality Data Analytics
- Graded Approach Methodologies
Desirable
- CQI Diploma or Degree-level qualification.
- IRCA Lead Auditor registration.
- Experience working directly with regulators and client assurance organisations.
- Knowledge of ONR regulatory requirements and TAG 77.
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 Kilpatrick is a leader in mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions.
We design, install and maintain the complex systems and technologies that underpin the UK’s national infrastructure and bring buildings to life.
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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