Quality Advisor - Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty
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Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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About the role
Here at Balfour Beatty, our work inspires communities and advances society. Our commitment to sustainability looks even further - generations further.

Join our Power Transmission & Distribution team as a
Quality Advisor to be based in our
Scottish Region and you'll be part of our legacy.


As a Quality Advisor you will be working on some of the biggest Power projects across Scotland supporting our Cabling, Overhead line and Substation colleagues to deliver 'Right First Time - Everytime' quality projects to our clients.


What you'll be doing
As a
Quality Advisor (Scotland), you will have the following accountabilities:
To support right first time every time, external quality certification process and to drive the "Elimination of Waste", "Right First Time" and reduction in the "Cost of Quality" all through:

  • Supporting the delivery of Contract, Business Unit and SBU Quality Action Plans
  • Support and facilitate Quality management planning
  • Challenging current systems and processes to ensure best practice and continual improvement
  • Where required support development of appropriate content for the business management system
  • Supporting quality related improvement initiatives
  • Provide advice and coaching on Quality issues
  • Supporting Quality related training to equip the business with the skills to drive improvements in Quality performance
  • Interface with audit function to support locally where required
  • Support contracts to ensure they are compliant with Balfour Beatty & contract specific requirements
  • Where appropriate provide Quality advice to our supply chain
  • Where required provide Quality input to the tender development and bidding process
  • Production of appropriate reports and management information
  • Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
  • Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
  • Support the delivery of the Sustainability 2030 roadmap.
  • Support the business unit external accreditation process (including ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001 and industry licences) to ensure it can operate in its chosen sector.

Who we're looking for The following qualities/experience are essential**:

  • An understanding and commitment to Quality Management
  • Coaching skills
  • Ability to nurture strong relationships with delivery teams and project managers.
  • Either a CQI Practitioner or willing to work towards practitioner status
  • Competent user of modern office computer systems e.g. Microsoft Office
  • Site travel and overnight stays where required

The following are desirable:


  • A working knowledge of the sector in which the role is to operate
  • An understanding and knowledge of ISO 9001 and Internal Audit
  • Has an ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts.
  • Can deliver reports orally and written in an objective manner.
  • Has an enquiring and questioning approach to audit work.
  • Ability to work within a multidiscipline team.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.


About us

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world.

Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.


Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions.

With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.


As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.

We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.


Job Reference:
BBUK04979
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