About the role
Our work matters to millions. It'll matter to you too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Quality Engineer on the Hinkley Point C Project and you'll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
Overview
You will be the main point of contact for quality. Support the Quality Assurance Area Lead in ensuring that the Project Quality Assurance requirements are understood and implemented and to ensure that Client and statutory requirements are effectively met. You will provide quality assurance interface and internal audit for improvements.
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 Engineer, you will have the following accountabilities.
- Interact cross-functionally with project team members and management
- Maintain logs
- Review LTQR records where required
- Produce appropriate reports and management information, monitor the output and address any issues arising to drive improvements.
- Lead investigations and implement effective Root Cause Analysis to enable the identification of corrective actions (as required).
- Challenge systems, processes and working practices to ensure best practice and continual improvement
- Provide Process Verification Support within the Quality Team to exploit/mitigate risks to MEH Alliance Processes
- 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.
Who we're looking for
Do you have?
- Qualification in an engineering discipline, ONC / HND (or equivalent experience)
- Preferred membership of chartered quality institute or similar.
- Experience in a progressively responsible Quality Engineering positions
- Experience working within regulated industries
- Ability to achieve a high-level security clearance.
- Nuclear and Major Project experience would be a benefit.
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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