Quality Manager

Balfour Beatty Plc

The Role

Overview

Lead quality management, ensure Right‑First‑Time delivery and compliance on Lower Thames Crossing.

Key Responsibilities

  • quality audits
  • root cause
  • metrics reporting
  • supply chain
  • quality plan
  • training

Tasks

-Establish a Right First -Time culture on the project, utilising the BB Group material. -Conduct audits, surveillances, and site quality tours, reporting on the results, and managing findings to closure. -Supporting the business unit external accreditation process (including ISO9001 and industry licences) to ensure it can operate in its chosen sector. -Undertaking investigations and implement effective root cause analysis where applicable. -Driving the quality metrics and monitoring and reporting on project performance relating to Quality and agree (and monitor) management actions to drive performance improvements. -Establish an approach to manage quality related matters with the Supply Chain, that also includes delivering training on specialist quality subjects. -Interfacing with audit function to support local processes. -Prepare, implement, and maintain the project Quality Management Plan(s) and associated processes that deliver Right First Time to project specification and requirements. -Providing quality leadership to deliver the Quality Strategy -Supporting the construction team establish inspection and test plans, through training, and progressive reviewing and commenting. -Producing project Assurance Plan(s) to support the delivery of project deliverables, handover, and Health & Safety File requirements. -Establishing quality related training, coaching & skills processes so that the project teams understand and manage the delivery quality expectations.

Benefits

-Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow. -25 days paid annual leave (pro rata) -Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave -Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

The Company

About Balfour Beatty Plc

-It finances, designs, constructs and maintains roads, rail, energy plants, water systems, buildings and communities. -Active across the UK, US, Hong Kong and Canada, it's known for ventures like HS2, Crossrail and major highway upgrades. -Known for innovation, it uses digital tools, off-site manufacturing and automated plant to enhance safety and efficiency. -An unusual highlight: it pioneered the Automated Cone Laying Machine, boosting roadworker safety on live highways.

Sector Specialisms

Residential

Off-site solutions

Pipe fabrication and installation

Infrastructure Investments

Construction Services

Support Services

Civil engineering

Building

Ground engineering

Mechanical & Electrical engineering

Refurbishment

Fit-out

Rail engineering

Electricity networks

Rail

Highways

Structural concrete repair

Corrosion protection

Bridge strengthening

Bearing replacement

Concrete carriageway rehabilitation

Transportation (roads, rail and aviation)

Power and Energy

Mining

Water

Social infrastructure (hospitals and schools)