Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead a team of quality professionals which provide a quality management service whilst ensuring that all activities defined planned and implemented in their area are aligned to the Quality Policy and Strategy.
- To plan, evaluate, verify, and certify quality, proposing and embedding improvements where necessary to ensure delivery is effective, minimises the cost and/or consequence of failure and meets customer, stakeholder, specifications and requirements.
- Deploying quality assurance and control activities to support right first-time delivery for their area.
- Deploying quality improvement plans in accordance with relevant objectives. Using, capturing and sharing learning from experience to support improvement in quality performance.
Experience Required
- Graduate in relevant discipline OR professional qualification (e.g. CQI Diploma).
- 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.
- Nuclear Project experience 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 Skills
- Significant operational experience in an environment with similar complexity and risk.
- Experience managing teams in a front-line operational or project role, or substantial experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver improvement activities.
- Ability to form effective working relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels within the organisation to implement business improvements.
- Experience of effective working in a collaborative working environment to ensure fit for purpose methods are utilised to meet customer needs, time, cost and quality.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to produce clear reports
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of quality management systems, and experience developing and implementing quality standards in a manufacturing, engineering or project environment.
- Experience undertaking quality audits and assurance activities.
- Experience monitoring the quality performance and outputs of the quality process utilising and implementing appropriate KPIs and Metrics.
- Experience of developing action plans and programmes to support improvements.
- Experience of working in a Nuclear Industry
Desirable skills
- Experience and or sound knowledge of the appropriate programmes, strategies, current challenges, working environment and collaborative arrangements currently in place.
- Experience conducting investigations.
- Experience in establishing and improving quality management arrangements in a project environment.
- Experience leading and driving improvements using lean six sigma tools
- Trained Internal/External Auditor.
- Knowledge and /or experience of Quality Inspection Techniques.
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