Quality Engineer

Our Vacancy# Quality Engineer
* Nuclear* Permanent /
* Bridgwater* United Kingdom
* 23/04/26
* On site
* Share Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.  Assystem mobilizes 8,000 experts in 13 countries and intervenes across the entire project lifecycle, in engineering, project management and digital solutions.##

Job Description
** Job Purpose
** The Quality Engineer (QE) plays a key role in supporting client programmes and projects by delivering effective quality management and quality control services.

The primary purpose of the role is to provide assurance and evidence that both the Client and the supply chain are complying with contractual quality requirements across allocated programmes and projects.

The secondary purpose is to support the successful delivery of Client Programmes by:
* Ensuring adherence to programme-wide quality arrangements
* Establishing and maintaining project-specific quality arrangements, where required
* Ensuring consistent implementation of quality across all activities within the programme scope

The QE will work closely with project teams and supply-chain partners to ensure quality is delivered consistently, safely and right‐first‐time.
** Role Context / Key Activities***(Dependent on Client requirements)
* As an embedded member of the Programme or Project team, the Quality Engineer will:
* Provide practical support on the application of project‐specific quality activities, as directed by the Client line manager, ensuring consistency and compliance.
* Establish, maintain and oversee quality arrangements that support safe, efficient, and right‐first‐time delivery of project activities.
* Maintain Project Quality Plans and Manufacturing / Inspection & Test(MIT) Plans in a consistent and controlled manner.
* Undertake surveillance and inspection activitiesacross client sites and/or sub‐contractor facilities.
* Capture, analyse and report quality performance metrics, ensuring management reporting within the MDT is clear, accurate and meaningful.
* Manage thenon‐conformance process, including:  + Identification of project‐wide preventative actions  + Driving timely closure of non‐conformances  + Ensuring project‐wide learning is captured and applied
* Plan and conduct work‐stream and cross‐project audits, as required.
** Principal Accountabilities
** The Quality Engineer is accountable to the Client for:
* Delivering day‐to‐day
** quality management activities
** in line with Client priorities and direction from the Client Quality Director, as defined through objectives or task orders.
* Reviewing
** quality records, inspections and checks
** to provide effective quality oversight and assurance of compliance with specified requirements.
* Supporting the review, acceptance and oversight of
** Quality Plans and Inspection & Test Plans
** submitted by the supply chain.
* Assisting the Client in establishing effective
** manufacturing and site surveillance plans**, aligned to identified risks.
* Ensuring appropriate controls are in place for the provision and management of
** Quality Records and End‐of‐Manufacture / End‐of‐Works Reports**.
* Supporting the effective close‐out of
** non‐conformances**, including Root Cause Analysis and implementation of project‐wide preventative actions.
* Supporting
** Client and supply‐chain audits**, ensuring audit findings are addressed and closed out in a timely manner.
* Actively participating in
** programme and project risk & opportunity reviews**, including lessons‐learned activities.
* Contributing to
** quality investigations
** and issue resolution activities, as required.
** You should be able to demonstrate a selection of the following qualifications
*** Apprenticeship in an
** engineering discipline**.
* Practitioner‐grade member of the
** Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)
** or an equivalent professional engineering institute.
* Formally recognised
** Quality qualification**, e.g. IRCA…