Senior Quality Engineer

Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Ground Engineering team as a Senior Quality Engineer on the ASTI framework in Scotland
and you can build something to be proud of.

The successful candidate will have the following accountabilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise to project and work winning teams to facilitate the implementation of effective quality management processes.
• Monitor, analyse and report Quality performance relating to agreed business or project KPIs, communicating risks and opportunities.
• Ensure the customer and other standards’ requirements are clearly understood and that quality control mechanisms are in place that provide assurance that the asset and/or service delivers as designed/required.
• Coach and advise delivery teams in using the appropriate digital quality and governance systems, and managing issues as required.
• Maintain local quality processes as part of the Quality management system, ensuring processes remain effective, compliant, and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Lead local and supplier audits in line with programme objectives, and support with BB and external certification audits.
• Coordinate with others to produce and handover project and/or business quality deliverables.
• Implement quality development and training programmes for business / project teams and local quality resources.
• Encourage the sharing of good practice and learning to embed continual improvement.
• Contribute to the implementation of Management Review(s) and delivery of agreed actions.
• Undertake investigations of high-risk quality-related issues as required, ensuring robust corrective and preventive actions are identified.
• Implement continual improvement actions to support the delivery of quality-related strategic objectives as directed by local or senior leadership.

The successful candidate will have the following skills, knowledge and experience:

• Skilled Quality Management professional, with ability to implement associated methodologies, tools and applications.
• Level 4+ Qualification in Quality or Construction
• CQI Practitioner Member (PCQI).
• ISO 9001 Lead Auditor trained.
• Ability to communicate effectively and build influential relationships with a variety of stakeholders (quality and non-quality).
• Gathers, analyses and evaluates facts whilst remaining objective and impartial.
• Ability to challenge existing methods and ways of thinking.
• Awareness of information management and change management principles.

Our people are our biggest asset and we focus on recruiting, training and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of the future. We nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level.

Some of our key benefits are:

• An attractive/negotiated salary;
• Company car;
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays;
• Pension savings schemes;
• Enhanced maternity/paternity and family friendly policies;
• Access to our Refer and Earn scheme;
• Discretionary annual salary reviews.

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering is one of the UK’s leading specialist geo-technical contractors, providing innovative piling and ground improvement solutions across all sectors.

Our comprehensive ground engineering capabilities, equipment and experience provide the solid foundations for infrastructure and buildings of any height, ranging from city skyscrapers to cross-country rail and road projects.

Our reputation as one of the UK’s leading specialist geo-technical contractors is earned through the delivery of ground engineering solutions on some of the UK’s largest…