Project Quality Lead

Job Title:             Project Quality Lead             
Location:             Warrington, United Kingdom
Compensation:   £44,000- £59,000 + Benefits 
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF54845

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 Project Quality Lead at our Warrington site.

The role
As a Project Quality Lead you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will provide functional advice, guidance and support to the business on all matters related to the delivery of a project, ensuring outputs meet customer and regulatory requirements.

Day to day, you will be responsible for providing key support to the Quality Manager. You will play a key role in project delivery, proactively supporting and advising on all aspects of quality management on our innovative projects, including risks and issues, as well as implementing improvements. Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with both internal and external international customer to ensure quality requirements are defined and standards are met.

• Developing and managing project quality arrangements.
• Developing and implementing appropriate auditing arrangements  within the project, both internally and externally (e.g. Suppliers).
• Ensuring any project quality non conformances / issues are managed and closed out.
• Ensuring Supplier quality arrangements are reviewed and approved / acceptance in accordance with project requirements, including Customer approvals.
• Liaising with customers to understand their requirements / expectations for quality assurance, quality control and inspection.
• Undertake quality planning, including the preparation of the project quality documentation and as required the writing of project specific procedures / local working instructions. The inclusion of health, safety and environment aspects should be consider in drafting the project quality documentation.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. 

Essential experience of the Project Quality Lead:

• Knowledge of all relevant regulations and legislation
• Knowledge of the Customers quality requirements
• Knowledge and application of ISO 9001
• Experience overseeing or leading a small team within a project delivery environment 
• Have a proven track record preferably gained within a similar role in the Nuclear or other highly regulated industry

Qualifications for the Project Quality Lead:

• Qualified to degree, HNC or equivalent in a relevant subject e.g. engineering.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain <please select from the following Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. 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 up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. 
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together. 

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: 13/05/2024

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