Project Quality Advisor

About the role

Job Title
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Project Quality Advisor

Location: Peterhead / Aberdeen

Company: Balfour Beatty

Project: ASTI

Balfour Beatty Energy is playing a critical role in the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) programme, delivering essential infrastructure that supports the UK’s transition to net zero. We are currently looking to recruit a Quality Advisor to support delivery across our ASTI works in Peterhead.

This role would suit a candidate from a construction background, ideally with civil engineering experience, who has proven Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) expertise on infrastructure or energy projects.

About the Role

As Quality Advisor, you will support “right first time” delivery across the project, ensuring compliance with internal systems, contractual requirements and external standards. You will work closely with construction and delivery teams to drive continual improvement in quality performance.

The role will be based from our Peterhead office / Site.

Key Responsibilities

• Support delivery of project and business unit Quality Action Plans
• Implement and maintain quality management planning, including Contract Quality Plans
• Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs)
• Drive QA/QC compliance across civil engineering and construction activities
• Carry out internal and supplier audits, including planning, reporting and close‑out
• Support external certification and compliance (including ISO 9001)
• Challenge existing processes and promote continual improvement
• Provide practical quality coaching and advice to site and project teams
• Support root cause analysis and capture of Cost of Poor Quality
• Assist with quality input into tenders and bid submissions where required
• Produce quality reports and management information
• Support Balfour Beatty’s commitment to:
  • Zero Harm
  • Sustainability 2030
  • Strong ethical and quality‑led delivery

About You

Essential

• Proven experience in Quality Assurance / Quality Control within a construction energy, infrastructure or civil engineering environment
• Strong understanding of Quality Management Systems
• Ability to work collaboratively with construction, engineering and project teams
• Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills
• Competent user of Microsoft Office
• CQI Practitioner status or willingness to work towards it

Desirable

• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 and internal auditing
• Familiarity with Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Ability to manage your own time and work proactively in a site environment

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

We offer a full range of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Key benefits include:

• Smart working, flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, and up to 40% remote working where roles allow
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave, four weeks full pay for paternity/partner’s leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more

From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.

We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.

Our award‑winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.

We are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long‑term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence "Employer Recognition Scheme" and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.