Position: Project Quality Advisor

Location: Milton Park, Oxfordshire or Birchwood, Warrington

Salary: £36,000 - £45,000 DOE

Purpose of the job

As our Quality Advisor, you will support Quality Leads within the business to ensure that business level quality requirements and improvements are identified and delivered effectively and to process, plus supporting to ensure projects and contracts within the organisation are managed within the bounds of the agreed procedures, and that project quality requirements are maintained.

As part of the Project Management Office, the role reports into one of two Quality Managers, but will be expected to support both Business and Project level quality requirements.

The Quality Advisor will report to

PE&D Quality Managers as part of the PE&D Project Management Office, but day to day works alongside all business line Quality Representatives and Project Teams.

Key Accountabilities for a Quality Advisor:

Project Quality Advisors will be supporting the Quality Leads within the team to ensure the requirements of the Project Quality Team and the Business Line Quality and Improvement Team are met. Delivering tasks and giving advice where needed to ensure that quality requirements across the business are delivered successfully.

The role will continue to develop understanding and knowledge of quality through the support to the business and PMO team.

Project Quality Assurance:

Quality Documentation – drafting and authorship
Support to Project Deliverables
Project LFE logging
Project LTR administration
Liaison with Sub-contractors
Liaison with Client 
Support to Internal Project Audits
Support to Client Audits
KPI Data Collection
 

Corporate Quality Representation:

• Support to Internal Audits
• Governance Support
• Company Systems Administration
• Support to External Audits

Business Line Quality Support:

• Data production to support Business level Quality KPIs
• Support to Business Line Quality Communications
•  Business Line Quality Process, Procedures & Guidance
• Support to LFE process
• Stakeholder feedback Data Collation
• Process improvement
• Business Line Governance & Assurance Support
• Tender support
• Knowledge Management Administration

Business Improvement:

• Continuous business improvement Administration
• Lean / Six Sigma Support
• Process improvement
• Cost of non-conformance Data Management
• Continuous Process improvement Co-ordination
• Change Management Support

Work scope is subject to change in order to support business needs.

Occupational Skills and Knowledge

• Relevant work experience in Quality related Roles  
• Member of CQI or equivalent professional body

Duties and Requirements for our Quality Advisor

Candidate has participated in aspects of Quality & continuous improvement. E.g.:

• Lean / Six Sigma
• Value Stream Mapping
• LFE, Stakeholder Feedback and Governance/ Internal Audit
• QMS/IMS development / Management
• Authoring of Quality Management Plans and related documentation

• Some knowledge or exposure to process improvement and problem-solving methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, 8D)
• Flexibility to travel to other UK offices and sites on occasion as necessary
• PC literate in Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel
• Articulate with good written communication 

Desirable:

• General understanding of nuclear industry would be beneficial
• Experience of highly regulated industry
• Full UK driving licence