Senior Quality Engineer - Plymouth, United Kingdom - COSTAIN GROUP PLC

COSTAIN GROUP PLC

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Plymouth, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Quality Engineer to join our project in the Southwest where we are a delivery partner on a key infrastructure project.

This is a unique opportunity to be involved in one of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK today, where you will be responsible for handover of the complete construction at site level.

As a Senior Quality Engineer you will deliver a professional quality management service, providing quality oversight and guidance to support successful project delivery in line with Engineering Services, Projects, ISO 9001 and any Customer Specified Requirements

Key Responsibilities

To manage the Quality Assurance functions with assigned project
Engaging with and providing support to Projects at an early stage to define appropriate quality requirements
Raising awareness of quality principles and the business quality management system across project and supply chain
Interfacing with and providing advice on project Quality related matters
Attend meetings, providing support to the business acting as the Subject Matter Expert for quality related issues
Review of Quality related documents such as Inspection & Test Plans & Quality Management Plans, and support contractors in their development
Providing advice to suppliers and subcontractors on producing the required Life Time Records (LTRs) and undertake reviews to provide assurance that the records meet specified requirements
Ensure that all handover documentation is prepared & maintained on an ongoing basis to enable work package completion
Assisting in the investigation / resolution of problems / issues and improvements
Define nonconformities arising from audits, and informing managers concerned to enable corrective actions to be formulated, assessed, monitored to completion and verified
Programme, plan and execute approval assessment and monitoring audits of projects, suppliers and subcontractors
Supporting ongoing efforts to raise the quality and delivery capability of the suppliers and contractors
Produce / review quality related metrics to identify areas for improvement
Review of Inspection and Surveillance reports for discrepancies and actions, following Inspection activities
Provide professional Quality support in the review of Risk Assessments / Method Statements (RAMS) when Quality deliverables are defined/required
Performing inspection of products and work
Preparing reports for Inspections, audits and submit regular project Quality updates as determined by the project team

About you

Competent in handling complex rapidly changing situations independently
Good verbal and written communication skills
Capable of acting competently, decisively, and quickly on Quality related issues
Thorough knowledge of the quality system requirements of ISO 900
Good working knowledge of computer based systems, such as Microsoft Office

Qualifications/Experience

Minimum NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an engineering discipline
Experience delivering quality on major infrastructure contracts
Nuclear sector experience preferred
ISO9001:2015 trained Auditor (Registered Lead Auditor preferred)

About Costain

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets.

We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency.

Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company.

We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements.

We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets:
future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you.

For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance).

To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
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