Senior Quality Engineer

Project Senior Quality Engineer - Infrastructure Programme

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £47,690 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

Join an exciting and diverse Capital Projects portfolio of multi-Billion GBP investment, over the next 15+ years for the UK Defence sector. Supported by the wider Infrastructure Projects Delivery Quality team, you will be the key lead to ensure projects are delivered to the Quality requirements by working in the project teams and with the supply chain. Opportunity to progress to Quality Manager with line management responsibilities.

Key accountabilities of this position include:

• Managing & leading Quality, collaboratively within Project Teams and the supply chain, delivering new build projects
• Contribute to a positive Quality Culture from Project Kick-Off to Handover with all stakeholders.
• Support to supplier/sub-supplier mobilisation and integration post contract award.
• Act as the Intelligent Client representative for AWE.
• Task managing, mentoring, training and coaching Quality Engineers.
• Lead Quality at key stakeholder meetings including design and technical reviews.
• Review of supplier Quality Plans and support to wider project artefact reviews.
• Conducting/leading internal project and supplier capability audits.
• Leading workshops to promote performance improvement.
• Presenting quality data to key stakeholders and for reporting metrics and KPIs.
• Leading and planning supplier surveillance & Quality Control, e.g., ITPs and FAT activities.
• Management of NCRs using root cause analysis quality tools.
• Facilitating Learning from Experience workshops.
• Seeking cost efficiencies and simplification opportunities.
• Management and review of Lifetime Records.

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Use of problem solving and improvement tools.
• Working on a nuclear licenced site / within the nuclear industry or similar highly regulated industry.
• Experience of a graded approach to quality, e.g., Quality Control Grades 1-5.
• Working within an NEC framework for project delivery.

We do need you to have the following:

• A proven track record of influencing and engaging with key stakeholders.
• Experience in construction, capital project delivery or engineering is required.
• Relevant BTEC HNC/HND or equivalent qualification and/or experience.
• Membership of a recognised related professional body, or working towards e.g., CQI / IRCA.
• ISO9001 Lead Auditor trained and relevant audit experience.
• Good knowledge of national and international quality standards, e.g., ISO9001, AQAP-#####.
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for process and cost efficiencies/improvements.
• Technical knowledge for high integrity structures, systems, and components.

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