Quality Technical Lead

Location:

Hybrid, based from one of our offices in Derby, Manchester or Warrington

Rolls‑Royce SMR is here to transform how nuclear energy is delivered—cleaner, faster and at global scale. Our teams are developing one of the world’s most advanced small modular reactors, helping secure affordable, low‑carbon energy for generations to come. We’re revolutionising an industry. That’s a once-in-a-career opportunity for those excited by such a challenge. This is more than just a job; this is a legacy.

The Quality Technical Lead supports the Quality Technical Manager by providing specialist technical expertise, assurance, and oversight across nuclear quality processes, standards, and engineering activities. The role acts as a key technical point of contact for quality related matters, ensuring that nuclear safety requirements, quality standards, and regulatory expectations are embedded into programme delivery. The Quality Technical Lead contributes to the development and governance of nuclear codes requirements and, standards ensuring consistency and technical integrity across the organisation.

0 – 6 Months:
Develop a strong understanding of assigned contracts, work packages, and programme scopes. Take a key role in developing, maintaining, and applying nuclear codes, standards, specifications, and quality procedures. Become fully familiar with internal nuclear quality processes, standards, and engineering workflows. Understand nuclear safety requirements and regulatory expectations embedded in programme delivery. Position yourself as a technical point of contact for quality related matters.

6-18 Months:
Work with teams to ensure consistent application of nuclear quality standards across our projects and programmes. Conduct structured technical assurance assessments, audits, and verification/validation activities.

18+ months:
Champion continuous improvement and nuclear quality mindset across project delivery. Ensure readiness processes are fully integrated into programme delivery cycles. Shape long‑term nuclear codes, standards, and processes, ensuring consistent application across the organisation. Support readiness for external regulatory engagements and major project milestones.

Evidence that quality requirements are understood and applied by engineering, supply chain, and project teams (e.g., approved workflows, documented reviews, and compliance checks). Proactive identification and mitigation of quality risks, captured within project quality risk registers. Delivery of structured readiness evidence packs demonstrating compliance with nuclear quality standards. Production of auditable evidence to show compliance with nuclear safety, regulatory, and quality management requirements.

Successfully supported internal audits, external audits, and regulatory engagement activities.

Contribute to the development, maintenance, and application of nuclear codes, standards, specifications, and technical procedures. Support the creation and review of Statements of Work (SoWs) and quality requirements for internal teams and suppliers. Ensure engineering and quality deliverables meet regulatory, contractual, and internal technical standards.

Support technical assurance activities such as audits, reviews, technical assessments, and verification validation activities. Perform technical quality reviews of engineering documentation and evidence to ensure compliance with nuclear safety and quality frameworks. Identify and elevate technical risks, issues, and non‑conformances,…