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Quality Assurance Risk Lead (Sizewell C)

Job Category:  Project Management / Controls
Contract Partner Company:  Venesky Brown
Employing Company:  EDF

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Quality Assurance Risk Lead
Venesky Brown

 

Temporary/Contract


The Quality Assurance & Risk Lead, within the safety directorate, ensures alignment and integration of assurance activities between Project Delivery (First Line of Defense), Safety Security & Assurance (Second Line of Defense), Independent Nuclear Assurance (Third Line of Defense), and Risk Management. This role is key to ensuring that audits, compliance reviews, and risk assessments support project execution while maintaining nuclear safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.


This role ensures that assurance activities drive real improvements in project execution, enhance risk awareness, and support nuclear safety and regulatory compliance. It creates a cohesive link between operational assurance and strategic risk management, ensuring that all lines of defense work together effectively

 


Principal Accountabilities:

 

Assurance Integration Across Lines of Defense
•    Act as the key link between Project Delivery (LoD1), Internal Audit/IMS (LoD2), and Independent Nuclear Assurance (LoD3).
•    Ensure that assurance activities are coordinated, avoiding duplication while addressing project risks effectively. 
•    Integrating risk-based assurance activities into project execution, prioritising high risks areas.
•    Work closely with Risk Management teams to ensure that audit findings inform risk registers and mitigation plans.

 

Risk-Based Audit Planning & Execution
•    Develop risk-based audit Schedule aligned with project milestones and critical risk areas.
•    Ensure that assurance activities are integrated into project execution.
•    Identify emerging risks in project delivery and escalate concerns where necessary.
•    Conduct targeted audit/inspections to support a quality or project specific interventions.
•    Provide Quality subject matter expertise with functional oversight audits/inspections as the business requires.

 

Compliance & Non-Conformance Management
•    Ensure audit findings and non-conformities are tracked, analysed, and resolved within project execution workflows.
•    Facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) for non-conformances and ensure lessons learned are applied across the project.

•    Support the monitoring of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to ensure long-term compliance and process improvement.

 

Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement
•    Provide regular updates and reports to senior management on audit outcomes, compliance risks, and corrective action status.
•    Support Management Reviews by ensuring audit insights contribute to risk-based decision-making.
•    Support development of dashboards and metrics to visualize audit progress, assurance coverage, and risk trends.

 


Qualifications:

 

•    Degree in Engineering, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, or a related field.
•    Extensive experience in internal audits, nuclear assurance, or quality/compliance management within complex infrastructure or nuclear projects.
•    Strong understanding of the Three Lines of Defense model, risk-based assurance, and ISO management systems (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001).
•    Knowledge of nuclear regulatory frameworks and industry standards, such as ONR SAPs and IAEA GSR Part 2.
•    Experience working within the UK regulatory environment.
•    Proficiency in audit and risk management tools (e.g., Power BI, risk registers, audit tracking systems).
•    Strong ability to work across assurance functions, risk management, and project teams.

 

Desirable:

•    Lead Auditor certification (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001).
•    Technical knowledge of nuclear safety design and quality management.
•    Experience working with regulators in a dynamic environment.
•    Problem-solving expertise within complex infrastructure projects.
•    Previous experience in the nuclear industry.

 


Knowledge & Skills:

 

•    Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage credibly at all levels, both internally and externally.
•    Ability to influence and drive behavioural change across diverse organizational levels.
•    Expert knowledge of Quality Management Systems, including ISO 9001, ISO 19443, ISO 14001, and their interrelation with ISO 45001 and IAEA GSR-2/3.
•    Strong understanding of ISO 19011:2015 (Guidelines for auditing management systems).
•    Excellent presentation and communication skills, with experience engaging external regulatory stakeholders.
•    Decisive and credible decision-maker, capable of crafting strong justifications and arguments.
•    Experience in leading and managing small teams within an assurance or audit function.
 

 

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 Risk Lead
Venesky Brown

 

Temporary/Contract


The Quality Assurance & Risk Lead, within the safety directorate, ensures alignment and integration of assurance activities between Project Delivery (First Line of Defense), Safety Security & Assurance (Second Line of Defense), Independent Nuclear Assurance (Third Line of Defense), and Risk Management. This role is key to ensuring that audits, compliance reviews, and risk assessments support project execution while maintaining nuclear safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.


This role ensures that assurance activities drive real improvements in project execution, enhance risk awareness, and support nuclear safety and regulatory compliance. It creates a cohesive link between operational assurance and strategic risk management, ensuring that all lines of defense work together effectively

 


Principal Accountabilities:

 

Assurance Integration Across Lines of Defense
•    Act as the key link between Project Delivery (LoD1), Internal Audit/IMS (LoD2), and Independent Nuclear Assurance (LoD3).
•    Ensure that assurance activities are coordinated, avoiding duplication while addressing project risks effectively. 
•    Integrating risk-based assurance activities into project execution, prioritising high risks areas.
•    Work closely with Risk Management teams to ensure that audit findings inform risk registers and mitigation plans.

 

Risk-Based Audit Planning & Execution
•    Develop risk-based audit Schedule aligned with project milestones and critical risk areas.
•    Ensure that assurance activities are integrated into project execution.
•    Identify emerging risks in project delivery and escalate concerns where necessary.
•    Conduct targeted audit/inspections to support a quality or project specific interventions.
•    Provide Quality subject matter expertise with functional oversight audits/inspections as the business requires.

 

Compliance & Non-Conformance Management
•    Ensure audit findings and non-conformities are tracked, analysed, and resolved within project execution workflows.
•    Facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) for non-conformances and ensure lessons learned are applied across the project.

•    Support the monitoring of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to ensure long-term compliance and process improvement.

 

Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement
•    Provide regular updates and reports to senior management on audit outcomes, compliance risks, and corrective action status.
•    Support Management Reviews by ensuring audit insights contribute to risk-based decision-making.
•    Support development of dashboards and metrics to visualize audit progress, assurance coverage, and risk trends.

 


Qualifications:

 

•    Degree in Engineering, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, or a related field.
•    Extensive experience in internal audits, nuclear assurance, or quality/compliance management within complex infrastructure or nuclear projects.
•    Strong understanding of the Three Lines of Defense model, risk-based assurance, and ISO management systems (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001).
•    Knowledge of nuclear regulatory frameworks and industry standards, such as ONR SAPs and IAEA GSR Part 2.
•    Experience working within the UK regulatory environment.
•    Proficiency in audit and risk management tools (e.g., Power BI, risk registers, audit tracking systems).
•    Strong ability to work across assurance functions, risk management, and project teams.

 

Desirable:

•    Lead Auditor certification (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001).
•    Technical knowledge of nuclear safety design and quality management.
•    Experience working with regulators in a dynamic environment.
•    Problem-solving expertise within complex infrastructure projects.
•    Previous experience in the nuclear industry.

 


Knowledge & Skills:

 

•    Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage credibly at all levels, both internally and externally.
•    Ability to influence and drive behavioural change across diverse organizational levels.
•    Expert knowledge of Quality Management Systems, including ISO 9001, ISO 19443, ISO 14001, and their interrelation with ISO 45001 and IAEA GSR-2/3.
•    Strong understanding of ISO 19011:2015 (Guidelines for auditing management systems).
•    Excellent presentation and communication skills, with experience engaging external regulatory stakeholders.
•    Decisive and credible decision-maker, capable of crafting strong justifications and arguments.
•    Experience in leading and managing small teams within an assurance or audit function.
 

 

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.

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