Project Quality Engineer

• Graduate in relevant discipline OR professional qualification (e.g. CQI Diploma (Level 5)).
• Membership of the CQI or other relevant professional body.
• Lower level qualifications MAY be considered and accepted for candidates with substantial
• professional work experience in quality related roles.
• Operational or Project experience within an environment with similar complexity and risk, sufficient to understand and review end to end processes and propose quality improvements.
• Ability to form effective working relationships with Stakeholders.
• Relevant security clearance level to access and inspect areas of site within area of responsibility (if applicable).

Essential

• Understanding of the implications of poor quality in a project environment and its wider stakeholders.
• Understanding and promoting of the behaviours that drive quality.
• Able to understand and interpret both customer and stakeholder requirements (including, where required, legislation and standards).
• Able to plan for effective quality delivery, taking consideration of risks and opportunities and learning for experience and to define and implement QA/QC activities.
• Able to work collaboratively with integrated teams to prepare quality plans and inspection plans and define requirements for life time records.
• Able to engage effectively with all levels of the organisation and suppliers, to provide coaching, education and challenge and to act as an effective interface between all parties.
• Able to use and coach on QA/QC tools and techniques to meet specified requirements and ensure right first time.
• Able to use and develop appropriate tools and techniques (including audits, key performance
• indicators/ dashboards to support trending) to monitor quality performance and measure processes effectiveness.
• Ability to analyse QA/QC outputs to determine products or services conform to requirements and to communicate to management to enable effective decisions and appropriate mitigating actions.
• Proven ability to promote continual improvement, recognising the key considerations and approaches necessary to enable effective change.
• Able to develop, maintain and improve management system arrangements and promote procedural adherence to support right first time quality delivery

Desirable

• Knowledge of ISO 9000 and other management system standards.
• Understanding of key obligations and requirements relevant to project environment.
• Understanding of key business processes relevant to project environment, their interdependencies and interactions and how they affect performance.
• Proven ability to apply improvement tools and techniques and structured methodologies to analyse problems and implement solutions to support the business.
• Understanding of the ‘prevention, appraisal, failure’ (PAF) model and cost of Failure.
• Knowledge and /or experience of Quality Inspection Techniques.
• Trained Auditor.
• Experience of working with the supply chain and of supply chain quality requirements, and ability to support commercial processes including evaluation boards and supplier assessments.
• Conducting Investigations