Quality Manager

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Quality Manager to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17 km of complex highways construction, complex utility diversions, and a scheme‑wide, industry‑leading approach to carbon reduction. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a high‑impact energy project. If you're passionate about driving high standards, delivering meaningful impact, and being part of something that truly matters – we'd love to hear from you.

Our work powers progress, connects communities, and leaves a lasting legacy. With sustainability, innovation, and quality at the heart of everything we do, we're proud to lead some of the UK's most critical infrastructure developments.

• Providing quality leadership to deliver the Quality Strategy
• Establish a Right First‑Time culture on the project, utilising the BB Group material.
• Prepare, implement, and maintain the project Quality Management Plan(s) and associated processes that deliver Right First Time to project specification and requirements.
• Produce project Assurance Plan(s) to support the delivery of project deliverables, handover, and Health & Safety File requirements.
• Establish quality‑related training, coaching & skills processes so that the project teams understand and manage the delivery quality expectations.
• Drive the quality metrics and monitoring and reporting on project performance relating to quality and agree (and monitor) management actions to drive performance improvements.
• Conduct audits, surveillances, and site quality tours, reporting on the results, and managing findings to closure.
• Interface with audit function to support local processes.
• Support the business unit external accreditation process (including ISO
  9001 and industry licences) to ensure it can operate in its chosen sector.
• Undertake investigations and implement effective root‑cause analysis where applicable.
• Support the construction team in establishing inspection and test plans, through training, and progressive reviewing and commenting.
• Establish an approach to manage quality‑related matters with the Supply Chain, including delivering training on specialist quality subjects.

• Providing quality leadership to deliver the Quality Strategy
• Establish a Right First‑Time culture on the project, utilising the BB Group material.
• Prepare, implement, and maintain the project Quality Management Plan(s) and associated processes that deliver Right First Time to project specification and requirements.
• Produce project Assurance Plan(s) to support the delivery of project deliverables, handover, and Health & Safety File requirements.
• Establish quality‑related training, coaching & skills processes so that the project teams understand and manage the delivery quality expectations.
• Drive the quality metrics and monitoring and reporting on project performance relating to quality and agree (and monitor) management actions to drive performance improvements.
• Conduct audits, surveillances, and site quality tours, reporting on the results, and managing findings to closure.
• Interface with audit function to support local processes.
• Support the business unit external accreditation process (including ISO
  9001 and industry licences) to ensure it can operate in its chosen sector.
• Undertake investigations and implement effective root‑cause analysis where applicable.

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.

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

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes…