Quality Project Lead

Location: East Midlands

Job Description Quality Project Lead

Location:

Hybrid, based from one of our offices in Derby, Manchester or Warrington About UsRolls‑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.

Role Summary The Quality Project Lead is responsible for facilitating the effective implementation of quality arrangements across assigned contracts, work packages, and programme areas.

Reporting into the Quality Manager (Projects), the QPL ensures that quality requirements are embedded throughout the full lifecycle from design and procurement through manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and handover.

The role supports readiness activities, coordination of surveillance, and verification of compliance to nuclear quality standards, acting as a key link between engineering, manufacturing operations, supply chain, projects, and the wider quality organisation.

What we’ll need you to do:

Short Term Goals 0 – 6 Months Develop a strong understanding of assigned contracts, work packages, and programme scopes.

Establish working relationships with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, project management, and quality teams.

Support long-term industrialisation and standardisation of quality across future SMR deployments.

Review existing internal and customer deliverables.

Identify immediate gaps or risks in quality implementation.

Participate in early surveillance and assurance planning.

Assist in technical quality reviews and documentation assessments.

Support internal readiness audits already scheduled.undefined

Mid Term Goals 6-18 Months Work with teams to ensure consistent application of nuclear quality standards across our projects and programmes

Drive closure of early risks and nonconformances.

Coordinate surveillance activities across internal functions.

Improve the quality, completeness, and traceability of assurance evidence.

Understand how quality readiness is assessed across teams.undefined

Long‑Term Goals 18+ months

Champion continuous improvement and nuclear quality mindset across project delivery

Ensure readiness processes are fully integrated into programme delivery cycles.

Achieve high consistency and predictability in quality evidence generation.undefined

Support readiness for external regulatory engagements and major project milestones. Quality Implementation & Oversight Support and assess the effectiveness of the implementation of quality arrangements within assigned contracts and work packages.

Ensure suppliers, contractors, and internal teams understand and correctly apply nuclear quality requirements.

Identify gaps, weaknesses, or risks in quality implementation and support corrective or improvement actions. Readiness Coordination Support readiness processes to ensure that quality deliverables, documentation, and surveillance evidence are embedded throughout the business

Support the implementation of projects including industrialisation throughout the organisation.

Provide technical support to customer deliverables

Work with engineering, supply chain, and project delivery teams to confirm quality readiness through the lifecycle of the product Technical Assurance & Compliance 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.

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