Logistics Lead - Quality Management

Company Description️ð¡ About Assystem 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 / Overview The Quality Management Lead – Logistics will coordinate the delivery of equipment, materials and documentation across the supply chain, of a major UK infrastructure project, ensuring logistics activities meet project, quality and programme requirements.

The role will act as a key interface between project teams, suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers and construction teams, overseeing delivery readiness, material traceability, inspection/release and transportation to site.

The QML will act as the single point of contact for supply-chain quality and logistics matters, monitoring supplier performance, supporting inspections, resolving issues and reporting key delivery and quality metrics to ensure Right First Time (RFT) delivery.

The role will also undertake appropriate surveillance of manufacturing documentation and inspections, ensuring equipment is compliant and ready for release and delivery to the construction site.

Key Responsibilities General Support  the development of quality (QA/QC) arrangements for deployment across the HPC organisation;

Implement key quality arrangements related to the following topics:

Manage Quality Execution Support Technical Assessment of Suppliers Conducting Manufacturing Surveillance Modulating Manufacturing Surveillance Management of Non-Conformances Quality Release Certificate Process (where applicable)
Undertake actions to resolve issues relating to the implementation of quality and to bring about improvements, and support others in these actions.

Primary accountability

Review, accept and monitor Contractors Quality Assurance Plans (CQAP) provided by the supply chain;

Identify needs for supply chain audits and engage Supply Chain Auditors to perform audits and prompt resolution of findings;

Produce Project Quality Control Plans (PQCP) for the supply chain;

In compliance with the PQCP, ensure deployment of key quality contractual arrangements including the General Quality Assurance Specification (GQAS), Life Time Quality Records Specification, Quality Release Certificate and the Inspection & Test Plan Specification etc.

Provide relevant guidance to contractors, including contractor’s CQAPs, LTQR partitioning strategies and the arrangements for identifying and planning for Quality Related Activities;

Lead the implementation of LTQR reviews;

Support the determination and application of strategies for progressive provision of LTQRs by
contractors.

Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders including
contracted inspection entities (for offsite manufacturing in particular, Direction Industrielle is a key
stakeholder).Ensure manufacturing surveillance per contract is applied in a graded approach of equipment safety function and project importance through surveillance offers and performance monitoring of the inspection agencies used (e.g. Direction Industrielle);

Ensure overall effectiveness of ITPs submitted by the suppliers, checking that they are fit for purpose from a quality perspective and have been correctly distributed to the relevant internal parties for review and mark-up of the activities they wish to witness;

Where applicable, establish and check planned inspection…