Quality Assurance Lead Senior

Job Category:  Construction
Contract Partner Company:  Altrad Services
Employing Company:  Altrad

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Quality Assurance Lead Senior
Altrad


Permanent


Role Details :

The Discipline Quality Manager role is critical to ensuring the successful delivery of a nuclear new build project by leading and enhancing quality, safety, and regulatory compliance across  complex transverse discipline related scopes of responsibility. This role provides  support as part of delivery oversight, drives continuous improvement, and acts as a senior subject matter expert (SME) across designated delivery disciplines.  


Key Responsibilities:

Leadership and Management

•    Manage and coordinate a team including direct and matrixed resource to ensure the delivery of all quality functions within the specific Discipline. 
Lifetime Quality Records (LTQR) Governance: 
•    Ensure documentation from Discipline Installation Teams is collected, submitted, compliant & complete within contract timescales. 
•    Ensure Inspection Test Records (ITRs) are available and in use for all works within the Discipline 
•    Monitor LTQR maturity throughout the Discipline and monitor readiness for system and other handovers. 
•    Interface with Records Leads and Document Control.

 

Non-conformance Management

•    Ensure the identification and correct raising of NCRs for all areas of nonconformance in all aspects of MEHA works and processes. 
•    Monitor NCR progress towards closure and maintain constant communication with the relevant Discipline Teams and Directors on NCR progress and closure requirements. 
•    Report NCR progress and actions for relevant Discipline, in all required reports and meetings.  (E.g. Command Centre, Quality Board et al.) 
•    Ensure Discipline Teams and their Directors are informed appropriately on NCR data, ownership and closure requirements.

 

Surveillance & Quality Control

•    Develop and ensure the execution of discipline-specific surveillance plans. 
•    Perform trend analysis on recurring quality issues. 
•    Escalate systemic risks to Quality & Construction leadership.

 

Interface with Completions & Commissioning

•    Ensure the management of records and quality actions in the build-up and delivery of handovers and Milestones. 
•    Validate quality status before Mechanical Completion.

 

Training and Development

 •    Providing training and guidance to QL's, QE's and project personnel, on QA procedures, standards, and requirements applicable to your Discipline, promoting a culture of quality awareness and continuous improvement including FME, CFSI and local/project wide improvement campaigns and initiatives.

 

Risk Management

•    Identifying and active mitigation of quality risks and hazards within your discipline. Where necessary escalate risks that may pose a threat / to be captured on the project risk register to prevent quality issues and ensure the safety and reliability of the nuclear facility.

 

Regulatory Compliance

•    Ensuring compliance with applicable nuclear regulatory requirements, codes, standards, and licensing conditions related to quality assurance and quality control activities within your area of responsibility.

 

Interface Management  

•    Acting as the lead SME for a designated Discipline and as part of the lead roles within MDT, Coordinating with other project disciplines,  
•    Providing primary designated support to Discipline Directors, Area Managers and Other Directors for a range of strategic/management related assurance meetings in line with Quality Activities and requirements in specific Discipline


Qualifications

•    Recognised auditor qualification. 
•    Engineering qualification relative to transverse engineering delivery discipline -preferred 
•    Extensive HPC or equivalent Major Project / Engineering delivery experience - preferred
•    Team and Line management experience - preferred 
•    Demonstrable experience of leading / championing assurance and NSC culture  
•    Completions and records assurance experience relative to transverse engineering delivery discipline - preferred 
•    Preferred membership of Chartered Quality Institute. 
•    Preferred extensive experience of operating progressively in Quality Engineering positions. 
•    Nuclear Experience beneficial 
•    Working in Alliance agreement projects


Experience

•    Recognised auditor qualification. 
•    Engineering qualification relative to transverse engineering delivery discipline -preferred 
•    Extensive HPC or equivalent Major Project / Engineering delivery experience - preferred
•    Team and Line management experience - preferred 
•    Demonstrable experience of leading / championing assurance and NSC culture  
•    Completions and records assurance experience relative to transverse engineering delivery discipline - preferred 
•    Preferred membership of Chartered Quality Institute. 
•    Preferred extensive experience of operating progressively in Quality Engineering positions. 
•    Nuclear Experience beneficial 
•    Working in Alliance agreement projects

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Quality Assurance Lead Senior
Altrad


Permanent


Role Details :

The Discipline Quality Manager role is critical to ensuring the successful delivery of a nuclear new build project by leading and enhancing quality, safety, and regulatory compliance across  complex transverse discipline related scopes of responsibility. This role provides  support as part of delivery oversight, drives continuous improvement, and acts as a senior subject matter expert (SME) across designated delivery disciplines.  


Key Responsibilities:

Leadership and Management

•    Manage and coordinate a team including direct and matrixed resource to ensure the delivery of all quality functions within the specific Discipline. 
Lifetime Quality Records (LTQR) Governance: 
•    Ensure documentation from Discipline Installation Teams is collected, submitted, compliant & complete within contract timescales. 
•    Ensure Inspection Test Records (ITRs) are available and in use for all works within the Discipline 
•    Monitor LTQR maturity throughout the Discipline and monitor readiness for system and other handovers. 
•    Interface with Records Leads and Document Control.

 

Non-conformance Management

•    Ensure the identification and correct raising of NCRs for all areas of nonconformance in all aspects of MEHA works and processes. 
•    Monitor NCR progress towards closure and maintain constant communication with the relevant Discipline Teams and Directors on NCR progress and closure requirements. 
•    Report NCR progress and actions for relevant Discipline, in all required reports and meetings.  (E.g. Command Centre, Quality Board et al.) 
•    Ensure Discipline Teams and their Directors are informed appropriately on NCR data, ownership and closure requirements.

 

Surveillance & Quality Control

•    Develop and ensure the execution of discipline-specific surveillance plans. 
•    Perform trend analysis on recurring quality issues. 
•    Escalate systemic risks to Quality & Construction leadership.

 

Interface with Completions & Commissioning

•    Ensure the management of records and quality actions in the build-up and delivery of handovers and Milestones. 
•    Validate quality status before Mechanical Completion.

 

Training and Development

 •    Providing training and guidance to QL's, QE's and project personnel, on QA procedures, standards, and requirements applicable to your Discipline, promoting a culture of quality awareness and continuous improvement including FME, CFSI and local/project wide improvement campaigns and initiatives.

 

Risk Management

•    Identifying and active mitigation of quality risks and hazards within your discipline. Where necessary escalate risks that may pose a threat / to be captured on the project risk register to prevent quality issues and ensure the safety and reliability of the nuclear facility.

 

Regulatory Compliance

•    Ensuring compliance with applicable nuclear regulatory requirements, codes, standards, and licensing conditions related to quality assurance and quality control activities within your area of responsibility.

 

Interface Management  

•    Acting as the lead SME for a designated Discipline and as part of the lead roles within MDT, Coordinating with other project disciplines,  
•    Providing primary designated support to Discipline Directors, Area Managers and Other Directors for a range of strategic/management related assurance meetings in line with Quality Activities and requirements in specific Discipline


Qualifications

•    Recognised auditor qualification. 
•    Engineering qualification relative to transverse engineering delivery discipline -preferred 
•    Extensive HPC or equivalent Major Project / Engineering delivery experience - preferred
•    Team and Line management experience - preferred 
•    Demonstrable experience of leading / championing assurance and NSC culture  
•    Completions and records assurance experience relative to transverse engineering delivery discipline - preferred 
•    Preferred membership of Chartered Quality Institute. 
•    Preferred extensive experience of operating progressively in Quality Engineering positions. 
•    Nuclear Experience beneficial 
•    Working in Alliance agreement projects


Experience

•    Recognised auditor qualification. 
•    Engineering qualification relative to transverse engineering delivery discipline -preferred 
•    Extensive HPC or equivalent Major Project / Engineering delivery experience - preferred
•    Team and Line management experience - preferred 
•    Demonstrable experience of leading / championing assurance and NSC culture  
•    Completions and records assurance experience relative to transverse engineering delivery discipline - preferred 
•    Preferred membership of Chartered Quality Institute. 
•    Preferred extensive experience of operating progressively in Quality Engineering positions. 
•    Nuclear Experience beneficial 
•    Working in Alliance agreement projects

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.