Quality Lead

Overview

In this role you lead the M&T quality function to deliver safe, compliant and right-first-time outcomes. You will guide the quality team, set priorities, and embed quality and nuclear safety culture across delivery. You provide expert advice on quality performance, risks and issues to senior leaders while ensuring alignment with the Quality Management System. The position involves governance, assurance, and continuous improvement across complex civil engineering and nuclear scope, coordinating with clients, suppliers and regulators. You will shape quality processes and foster organisational learning in a regulated environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Smart working with flexible hours
• Remote work up to 40% where roles allow
• 25 days paid annual leave
• Maternity/adoption leave with 28 weeks full pay
• Paternity/partner leave with four weeks full pay
• Pension and share incentive plan

Responsibilities

• Lead the M&T quality team and set priorities aligned with delivery risks and programme objectives
• Promote quality and nuclear safety culture across M&T and integrate quality into planning and decision making
• Provide timely, constructive challenge and coaching to delivery teams and suppliers to meet quality expectations
• Oversee implementation of the CWA Quality Management System and related quality activities across the scope
• Manage assurance activities including audits, surveillance, non-conformance, corrective action and management reviews
• Ensure qualified personnel undertake quality-critical activities and maintain competence
• Drive learning through structured reviews, lessons learned and knowledge sharing
• Support resource planning and capability development for the M&T scope

Key requirements

• Demonstrable quality leadership within major civil engineering, nuclear or similarly regulated infrastructure projects
• Expert understanding of quality management systems and assurance throughout construction delivery
• Extensive experience with nuclear safety culture, intelligent customer capability and regulatory learning
• Proven ability to identify and resolve systemic quality issues and drive performance improvement
• Strong understanding of asset lifecycle from design to handover and progressive assurance
• Experience leading multidisciplinary quality teams and engaging with clients, regulators and suppliers
• Auditing, surveillance, supplier oversight, performance monitoring and quality risk management
• Data-driven analysis of quality performance and targeted interventions
• Strong communication, coaching and stakeholder management skills
• Chartered professional status in quality, engineering or equivalent; ISO 9001 Lead Auditor or equivalent

• leadership
• coaching
• stakeholder-management
• Quality Management Systems (QMS)
• Quality assurance and governance
• Auditing and surveillance

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