About the role
Our work matters to millions. It'll matter to you too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Quality Control Inspector on the Hinkley Point C Project and you'll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
About Hinkley Point C
The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.
Marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of our nuclear power industry, Hinkley Point C will make a major contribution to the UKs move to reduce carbon emissions. The electricity generated by its two EPR reactors will offset 9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, or 600 million tonnes over its 60-year lifespan.
What you'll be doing
As a Quality Inspector you will have the following accountabilities;
- Perform inspections in accordance with the ITP (Inspection and Test Plan).
- Liaise with clients representative for conducting of day-to-day inspection during the construction activities.
- Ensure installation of equipment is in compliance with ECS Code, drawings, vendor and code requirements with respect to; material, alignment, etc.
- Assist QC manager and Area Leads in executing their responsibilities.
- Maintaining LTQRs as required during inspections ensuring all signatures on LTQR and ITP during inspection.
- Updating SONIM register as required.
- Champion Foreign Material Exclusion, preventing ingress or entrapment of non-specified materials, loose items or debris in equipment and /or systems during assembly and testing
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting compliance with quality standards and procedures all installation, calibration and testing processes of electrical and instrumentation scope.
- Recommend methods to improve overall quality and assists in analysing quality concerns.
- Monitor and assist construction to achieve quality standards.
Who we're looking for
You will have;
- Qualifications in Electrical/Electronics/instrumentation, ONC / HNC / HND (or equivalent experience).
- Experience of Quality Control during the installation, inspection and testing of electrical and instrument systems associated with process plant during construction and operation to include; motors, pumps, transformers, DBs, cabling, electronic and pneumatic equipment, analogue and digital control systems, relay based and solid state logic systems, transmitters, control valves, etc.
- Knowledge of ATEX directive, preferably attended relevant ATEX competency course.
- CSCS Card
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.
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