Senior Quality Engineer

Location

Cumbria | United Kingdom

Job description

Description

Shirley Parsons are delighted to partner with a leading Construction organisation who are looking to appoint a Senior Quality Engineer within their Nuclear division. This Senior Quality Engineer assignment requires someone with a Mechanical background.

This is a permanent position paying up to £55,000 plus car/allowance + excellent bonus + excellent benefits. This position is a working on a hybrid basis where 2/3 days per week you will be required to be at Sellafield.

Responsibilities:

Develop, maintain, improve – and provide coaching on the use of – local management systems to enable effective delivery.

Verifying that quality requirements are adequately specified and complied with.

Ensure that the works (including materials and workmanship) are adequately specified and are carried out in accordance with contract documents/programmes and assist in the resolution of any on-site issues that may arise.

Interface and engage with key stakeholders to promote a joined-up approach to quality.

Assess the ability of suppliers to meet specified requirements.

Engage with relevant disciplines / functions to translate requirements and expectations, taking consideration of risks and opportunities and learning from experience (LFE); contribute to project meetings, subcontractor pre-contract and pre-start/opening up meetings.

Work collaboratively with integrated teams to prepare and implement quality plans and inspection plans, including co-ordination of surveillances required to monitor quality standards in line with specifications.

Review and accept relevant documentation including supply chain quality submissions.

Define quality and lifetime record strategies for a project, operation, activity or contract to ensure a demonstrable audit trail that the product/service meets the required specifications.

Promote the Quality Policy and support the development of a healthy quality culture. This includes Right First Time delivery and ownership of quality in the line, so that quality is understood to be a critical enabler to Nuclear Safety and good overall operational delivery.

Assist in the delivery of the appropriate Nuclear Safety Education Package where required.

Define and implement QA/QC activities (including measuring, monitoring, verification, validation and certification) to deliver the expected results.

Skills & Experience:

Trained Internal or Lead Auditor to ISO 9001 (desirable)

Practioner/Member of the CQI or working towards Practioner level as a minimum

Good management skills, with at least 2 years experience of managing a team, with the ability to motivate self and colleagues to achieve high standards of compliance.

Operational or Project experience within the Nuclear Industry or in an environment with similar complexity and risk, sufficient to understand and review end to end processes and propose quality improvements.

Knowledge & background in a Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (MEICA) environment (desirable).

Vacancy Reference: PR/027186
Vacancy Owner: Jessica Plested | [email protected] | (+44) 1296 611332 | (+44) 7725 258696

Job tags

Salary

£50k - £55k per annum