Quality Control Engineer

Build your future on a project that matters.

What if your next career move could take you somewhere extraordinary?

Join our Power Commercial team in Elgin as a Quality Control Engineer, where you’ll have the opportunity to work on a complex and meaningful infrastructure projects, gain hands‑on experience and learn from some of the best in the industry.

This is more than just a job. It’s an opportunity to challenge yourself, develop your commercial expertise and build the skills and experience to take your career further. You’ll be part of a team delivering work that makes a real difference, contributing to a project you can be proud of while shaping your own future with Balfour Beatty.

Role

Purpose:

To support Balfour Beatty delivery projects in accordance with customer and stakeholder requirements and commitments, including verification activities to demonstrate compliance against Balfour Beatty requirements, external accreditations and industry good practice.

To ensure implementation of procedures including submissions from the supply chain and to assure supply of materials meet client requirements and are right first time, ensuring a defect free delivery.

As a Quality Control Engineer, you'll have the following accountabilities:

• Attend factory acceptance tests and carry out supplier inspections, ensuring materials and equipment meet the required technical specifications and quality standards before acceptance.
• Develop manufacturing Assurance Plans, using a risk based approach to focus inspections and quality interventions where they’ll have the greatest impact.
• Recognise and manage non-conforming materials, raise non-conformance reports and support root cause investigations to help identify problems and put effective corrective actions in place.
• Produce and maintain accurate inspection and testing records, ensuring all relevant quality documentation is complete and ready for the handover of assets to our client.
• Work with colleagues and suppliers to challenge existing process, identify opportunities to improve and help build a culture where quality is everyone’s responsibility.
• Ensure activities are carried out in line with relevant health, safety, legal and statutory requirements.
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and Right First Time
• You’ll also contribute to wider team activities and support additional responsibilities as required.

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• A proactive and self-motivated approach, with the confidence to work independently, manage your own workload and take ownership of tasks through to completion.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills allowing you to build effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, share information clearly and work collaboratively to resolve quality related issues.
• A keen eye for detail and a methodical approach, ensuring inspections, testing and reporting are completed accurately and consistently, with any issues identified and addressed.
• Good analytical, written and numerical skills, enabling you to interpret information, prepare accurate reports and make sense of technical data.
• Good organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands, meet deadlines and adapt to changing requirements.
• Confident IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office 365, alongside the ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications and an understanding of electrical and/or mechanical product testing.
• A genuine interest in quality engineering and a willingness to learn, develop and build your technical knowledge.
• A full UK Driving Licence.

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• TrainedISO 9001
  
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