Senior Quality Engineer

Morgan Sindall Infrastructure delivers some of the UK’s most complex and critical infrastructure across six core sectors. From working on projects and long-term frameworks, we believe in connecting people, places and communities through responsible infrastructure. Our people are our business. We leverage their expertise to design and deliver safe, resilient infrastructure through innovative solutions. Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is part of Morgan Sindall Group plc, a leading UK construction and regeneration group with revenue of over £3 billion.

To make sure that work is carried out to the customer’s standards, specification and schedule and that the correct materials and workmanship are used; ensuring the customer is given quality work and value for money. Deploying quality assurance and control activities to support right first‑time delivery for their area. Deploying quality improvement plans in accordance with relevant objectives. Using, capturing and sharing learning from experience to support improvement in quality performance.

The Senior Quality Engineer will report directly to the Construction and Supply Chain Quality Manager and manage a number of scope packages and Quality Professionals (Quality Engineer/Quality Support).

• Develop, maintain, improve – and provide coaching on the use of – local management systems to enable effective delivery
• Verifying that quality requirements are adequately specified and complied with
• Ensure that the works (including materials and workmanship) are adequately specified and are carried out in accordance with contract documents/programmes and assist in the resolution of any on‑site issues that may arise
• Interface and engage with key stakeholders to promote a joined‑up approach to quality
• Assess the ability of suppliers to meet specified requirements
• Engage with relevant disciplines/functions to translate requirements and expectations, taking consideration of risks and opportunities and learning from experience (LFE); contribute to project meetings, subcontractor pre‑contract and pre‑start/opening up meetings
• Work collaboratively with integrated teams to prepare and implement quality plans and inspection plans, including co‑ordination of surveillances required to monitor quality standards in line with specifications
• Review and accept relevant documentation including supply chain quality submissions
• Define quality and lifetime record strategies for a project, operation, activity or contract to ensure a demonstrable audit trail that the product/service meets the required specifications
• Promote the Quality Policy and support the development of a healthy quality culture. This includes Right First Time delivery and ownership of quality in the line, so that quality is understood to be a critical enabler to Nuclear Safety and good overall operational delivery.
• Assist in the delivery of the appropriate Nuclear Safety Education Package where required.
• Define and implement QA/QC activities (including measuring, monitoring, verification, validation and certification) to deliver the expected results
• Provide coaching on quality tools and practices to guide others on how to achieve the best outcome and achieve right first time
• Analyse QA/QC outputs (e.g. using appropriate statistical techniques and root cause analysis) to determine products or services conform to requirements; engage with integrated teams to determine potential solutions
• Communicate quality performance to management to enable effective decisions and appropriate mitigating actions
• Provide oversight and assurance of the quality management system, including advice to users on quality matters
• Ensure that current knowledge of relevant legislation, standards and methods of installation is up-to-date using all appropriate means including reading, research from the industry lead bodies, and networking with all appropriate organisations, and engineers
• Lead and undertake inspections, audits/assurance reviews and investigations where required, reporting and implementing lessons learned and improvements
• Identify, capture and share LFE and best practice to promote continual improvement of Quality Performance
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