Balfour Beatty plc
Trainee Quality Advisor / Engineer
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About The Role
Launch Your Career in Quality with One of the UK's Most Exciting Energy Projects
Balfour Beatty Power T&D is recruiting for an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Quality Engineer / Trainee Quality Advisor to join our team supporting the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) Project in the North East.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to build a career in Quality Management within a leading infrastructure business. Working alongside experienced quality professionals, you will gain valuable hands-on experience while contributing to a major project that is helping to shape the UK's low-carbon future.
At Balfour Beatty, we invest in our people and are committed to developing the next generation of talent through structured learning, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
What you'll be doing
Reporting to a Senior Quality Engineer/Advisor, Quality Manager or Head of Quality, you will support the delivery of a Right First Time culture across the project through the coordination and implementation of quality assurance activities, quality management processes and continuous improvement initiatives.
This role is ideal for someone with an interest in quality, construction, engineering or infrastructure who is keen to develop their knowledge and experience within a supportive project environment.
What You'll Be Doing
- Supporting the development and implementation of Quality Plans and Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs).
- Assisting project teams with quality assurance activities and ensuring requirements are met.
- Monitoring and reporting quality performance against project and business KPIs.
- Supporting quality control processes to ensure assets and services are delivered to the required standards.
- Assisting delivery teams with digital quality and governance systems.
- Maintaining quality records and supporting local quality management processes.
- Supporting internal and external audits and helping to track corrective actions.
- Assisting with the production and handover of project quality documentation.
- Supporting training and awareness initiatives across project teams.
- Promoting best practice, lessons learned and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Assisting with investigations into quality-related issues and supporting improvement actions.
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Who we're looking for
- Supporting the development and implementation of Quality Plans and Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs).
- Assisting project teams with quality assurance activities and ensuring requirements are met.
- Monitoring and reporting quality performance against project and business KPIs.
- Supporting quality control processes to ensure assets and services are delivered to the required standards.
- Assisting delivery teams with digital quality and governance systems.
- Maintaining quality records and supporting local quality management processes.
- Supporting internal and external audits and helping to track corrective actions.
- Assisting with the production and handover of project quality documentation.
- Supporting training and awareness initiatives across project teams.
- Promoting best practice, lessons learned and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Assisting with investigations into quality-related issues and supporting improvement actions.
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.
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.
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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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