Quality Management Lead (Civils)
Location: Bristol, UK (Hybrid)
Type: Full-time
Clearance/Vetting: UK background check / vetting required
About the employer:
Our client is a leading engineering and technical services organisation supporting major UK infrastructure and clean energy programmes. With a large UK-wide workforce, the business delivers end-to-end capability across project delivery and offers clear routes for development within a supportive, inclusive culture.
Employees receive a competitive reward package plus a broad benefits offering, which may include private medical cover, digital GP access, enhanced family-friendly policies, employee assistance and wellbeing support, and funding towards relevant professional development and memberships. The organisation also supports community initiatives through volunteering and charitable programmes.
About the opportunity:
This role supports delivery on Hinkley Point C (HPC), the UK's first new nuclear power station in over 20 years. HPC will provide long-term, low-carbon electricity and is a nationally significant programme with a complex, highly regulated supply chain.
The Quality Management Lead (QML) - Civils is responsible for ensuring project quality requirements are met across the full lifecycle, including: contract award, design, procurement, manufacture, test, shipping, construction/installation, commissioning and close-out.
You will ensure supply-chain compliance with contracted quality assurance and quality control requirements. The QML sits within the Quality Management Team and is deployed into programmes to deliver defined quality requirements, with day-to-day reporting into the Quality Management Team Lead and Quality Delivery Manager. The scope includes the development and implementation of Project Quality Control Plans (PQCPs) and associated governance.
Key responsibilities:
- Drive resolution of quality implementation issues and support continuous improvement.
- Review, accept and monitor Contractor Quality Assurance Plans (CQAPs) from the supply chain.
- Identify audit needs across the supply chain; coordinate audits and follow through to closure of findings.
- Produce Project Quality Control Plans (PQCPs) for each contract.
- Ensure deployment of key quality arrangements/specifications (e.g. GQAS, LTQR, QRC, ITP and related requirements) in line with PQCPs.
- Lead Lifetime Quality Records (LTQR) reviews.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external inspection/assurance entities (including offsite manufacturing inspection partners where applicable).
- Ensure graded manufacturing surveillance is applied based on safety function and project importance, including monitoring inspection agency performance.
- Establish and verify inspection witness/hold points within supplier ITPs / Quality Plans / follow-up documentation and track completion.
- Coordinate and improve efficiency of manufacturing document review and inspection activities.
- Coordinate and lead client review/acceptance of relevant manufacturing documentation provided by contractors.
- Support review/acceptance of end-of-manufacturing and end-of-construction/erection status reporting (where applicable).
- Own review and delivery of end-of-manufacturing records to enable quality release of equipment to the HPC construction site.
Education, experience & skills:
- HNC/HND or degree (or equivalent) in a relevant science/engineering discipline.
- Broad experience implementing quality solutions across complex projects/supply chains.
- Proven track record of delivering results and driving issues to resolution.
- Leadership experience in QA/QC within nuclear or another safety-critical industry.
- Strong stakeholder management capability in multi-cultural, multi-party environments.
