Quality Advisor

About the role

We are seeking a dedicated Quality Advisor to join our team at Balfour Beatty, supporting our overhead line East Coast Scotland New Build Project based out of Kirriemuir, Angus. This role is crucial in ensuring that our projects meet the highest standards of quality and compliance, aligning with customer and stakeholder requirements.

Join Balfour Beatty as a Quality Advisor and play a pivotal role in delivering our OHL projects in the East Coast areas. You will ensure that all projects meet customer and stakeholder requirements, comply with industry standards, and adhere to Balfour Beatty's high-quality standards.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver projects in accordance with customer and stakeholder requirements, including verification activities to demonstrate compliance with Balfour Beatty standards, external accreditations, and industry best practices.
• Coordinate, submit, manage, and ensure compliance with all assurance activities, resolving any related issues.
• Implement procedures, including submissions from the supply chain, and establish test and inspection plans for project delivery.
• Support project teams in developing and following quality plans and inspection & test plans, ensuring customer and project requirements are met.
• Assist delivery teams in achieving required deliverables and managing issues, providing quality advice to the supply chain where appropriate.
• Utilise existing systems to establish and agree on sample and benchmark plans with customers and the supply chain.
• Use digital systems to monitor the performance of quality planning, production of quality deliverables, and managing issues against targets.
• Support project teams in collating and delivering handover records as per customer requirements, on time.
• Work according to the processes and procedures of the Business Management System.
• Support the Quality team during internal and external audits.
• Implement project or business stream quality strategies, plans, and actions across the project lifecycle.
• Assist in training, coaching, and developing quality skills, including sharing lessons learned.
• Foster a culture of continual improvement.
• Undertake specific investigations and/or reporting on quality-related issues as required.
• Support the use of appropriate digital tools to support project governance and quality assurance measures, including training on those tools.
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and Right First Time

Who we're looking for

• Prior quality experience and/or relevant operational/technical experience to meet industry sector demands.
• Relevant academic qualification in quality management, in lieu of relevant experience
• Understanding and commitment to Quality Management.
• Awareness of business improvement initiatives.
• Ability to gather, analyse, and evaluate facts.
• Ability to work to plans and programmes.
• Attention to detail and commitment to seeing tasks through to completion.
• Strong relationship-building skills and effective influencing abilities.
• Ability to deliver reports orally and in writing objectively.
• Ability to challenge existing methods and ways of thinking.
• Ability to work within a multi-discipline team.
• Proficiency in modern office computer systems and technology (e.g., Office 365).
• Either a CQI Practitioner or working towards Practitioner status.
• Awareness of sector-specific certifications and their requirements.
• Experience using Digital Progressive Assurance systems/Electronic Forms.
• Operational experience in construction or asset management.
• Internal or external Auditing desirable

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key 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…

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: ***email_hidden***

Job Reference: BBUK19663