Associate Director - Reading, United Kingdom - Mace

Mace

Verified Company

Reading, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Head of Environment, Safety, Healthy, Quality and Wellbeing within the Programme Partner, the Quality Assurance Lead is responsible for assuring compliance for a Nuclear licenced site and implementing a quality audit schedule for the programme.

Role & Responsibilities:

Develop Quality Management Plan.
Implement Quality Strategy and Policy to support the programme objectives.
Develop Integrated Quality Management System.
Produce and implement a Quality audit schedule for the programme.
Be a strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the Quality Assurance processes and strategies.
Have strong technical skills, both functional and nonfunctional, manual and automation, ideally in a continuous delivery environment.
Strong communication skills with all the key stakeholders to ensure Quality Assurance vision is understood and implemented correctly.
Be an advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and industry recognised best practice.
Carry out line management duties for those in the Quality team.
Travel to project offices and sites as required.

Behaviour competencies:

Passion driven
Sense of belonging, aligned to vision and programme ideology.
Act inclusively, treating all with respect and driving diverse thinking
Open minded and act inclusively.

Delivering excellence

Outcome driven, identifying opportunities.

Integrity

Complimentary and collaborative. Ability to hold a position under challenge.
Embed and embrace culture of health, safety, and wellbeing with safety at the heart of everything we do.
Safeguarding and protecting the planet
Adopting a sustainable approach, making the right decisions to protect our world.

Projectlife balance

Happiness.
Challenging the status quo in pursuit of a better future
Best in class and ahead of the curve, open to change.

Value led approach

Driven by future needs, bringing a better solution.

Ever evolving

Sustainable economically / people perspective.
Good communication and influencing skills.

Qualifications & experience:

Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
Member of the Chartered Quality Institute.
Lead Auditor IRCA.
Experience of leadership and driving strategic change.
Extensive knowledge of Quality Assurance on a nuclear licenced site.
Broad experience of nuclear safety.
Proven relevant experience in project management.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with a wide variety of people across functions especially at a senior executive level.
Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risked Based Testing.
Experience managing testing departments or testing functions, managing large and complex activities and processes.
Flexible with the ability to and work under pressure.
Proactive, strongminded, quick thinker and assertive.
Able to motivate a team, recognise talent and bring out the best out of everyone.
Influencing and negotiation skills to get management buyin on ideas and concepts.