Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title:                     Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:                     Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation:            Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF56397

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Quality Assurance Engineer at our Hinkley Point C site.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.

The role

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance. You will support the QA Area Lead in ensuring that the Project Quality Assurance requirements are understood and implemented and to ensure that Client and statutory requirements are effectively met.

Day-to-day, you’ll support developing of standards, incorporating lessons learned / best practices, training, audits and quality improvements.

• Ensure the highest degree of professionalism in all dealings related to the Contract.
• To report on quality metrics for the measurement of performance of the Works.
• Assist in Audits on Project Activities as per project schedule and ad hoc.
• Review Lifetime Quality Records for compliance.
• Interact cross-functionally with project team members and management.

This role is full time and 37 hours per week and is based on site at Hinkley Point C on a 9-day fortnight pattern. 

Essential experience of the Quality Assurance Engineer

• Significant experience in quality roles
• Major construction project experience
• Experience working in highly regulated environments e.g. Oil and gas, Nuclear etc.

Qualifications for the Quality Assurance Engineer

• ONC / HNC / HND in engineering discipline
• Membership of Chartered Quality Institute and IRAC auditor training

The successful candidate must be able to achieve a minimum of BPSS security clearance for this role.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer 

• Generous holiday allowance 

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance

• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+

• Employee share scheme 

• Employee shopping savings portal

• Payment of Professional Fees

• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 

• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement

• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 31/03/2025

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