Quality Management Lead

Job Title: Quality Management Lead

Location: Based in our Suffolk, London or Bristol office with hybrid working available

Pay: PAYE £383.13 or Umbrella £534.43

Job ID:2232

Vacancy Overview:

Are you looking for a career which is rewarding, at the cutting edge of project development and where you can really make a difference? Come and join our expanding Sizewell C (SZC) team and work on one of the most exciting and largest megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK's climate change agenda and energy policy. Following on from the success of Hinkley Point C (HPC), the SZC Project is a nuclear new build project in Suffolk, which has obtained planning approval and Government financing support. The project has started construction and is now seeking private investment. When completed, it will provide dependable electricity to 6 million homes for 60 years, which along with renewables, will support Britain to achieve Net Zero by 2050.

Job Purpose / Overview

The role of the Quality Management Lead (QML) is to ensure Sizewell C (SZC) Project quality requirements are complied with across the full project life-cycle (Contract award, Design, Procurement, Manufacture, Test, Shipping, Construction/Installation, Test/Commission and Contract close out).

The primary purpose of the Quality Management Lead role is to ensure supply-chain adherence to the contracted quality assurance and quality control requirements. QMLs sit within the PDO Quality Team and are deployed to Programmes to serve this primary purpose. In so doing, day to day reporting is to the Quality Delivery Manager (QDM) who sets out their Programme quality requirements. This includes development and implementation of Project Quality Control Plans and associated inspection and surveillance activities.

Their secondary purpose is to support the PDO Quality Director, the Quality Delivery Manager and their programme in achieving adherence with the Integrated Management System arrangements, putting in place additional project-specific arrangements as required and managing quality for all activities within the scope of the programme.

For a given portfolio of work, the Quality Management Lead is the single point of contact (SPOC) for all quality related elements associated with the supply chain. The QML will, on behalf of the Quality Delivery Manager, act as 'Intelligent Customer' in the capacity of ensuring that arrangements are in place, and effectively implemented by the supply chain, building on the lessons learned from the Hinkley Point C (HPC) project. Quality Management Leads will also support the Quality Delivery Manager and their respective Multi Discipline Team (MDTs) by the provision of quality management expertise to meet the quality requirements. This is to ensure products and/or services are provided Right First Time (RFT) in line with the SZC Project Goals, and in support of RFT, ensure effective resolution of issues and implementation of corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

During manufacturing or construction, the Quality Management Lead shall, as 'Intelligent Customer', ensure that manufactured equipment or construction conforms to the contract design and technical specifications. The Quality Management Lead will work with inspection and surveillance bodies and the respective suppliers to ensure appropriate mechanisms and arrangements are in place to manage inspection and surveillance activities in the supply chain, and ensure appropriate inspection and surveillance is planned and executed commensurate with the associated risks.

The Quality Management Lead shall also carry out their own surveillance on select manufacturing or construction documentation in accordance with the Surveillance Strategy and, where applicable, perform joint inspections with contracted inspection entities, in line with their own Surveillance Plans to oversee inspection performance. As part of demonstrating their 'Intelligent Customer' role, the QML shall measure and report quality metrics. to the project, Quality function and Supply Chain Management and perform regular audit of the supplier and the management of their sub-contractors to ensure supplier performance is maintained.

The post holder will work in close collaboration with all other project functions (particularly the SZC Commercial/Supply Chain Function, the Responsible Designer and their surveillance providers) and the suppliers and their sub-contractors to ensure that project quality is delivered consistently (safely, efficiently and right first time) compliant with the scope of work and quality arrangements.

Principal Accountabilities

· Support the development of quality (QA/QC) arrangements for deployment across the SZC organisation;

· Implement key quality arrangements related to the following topics:

Manage Quality Execution

Support Technical Assessment of Suppliers

Conduct Supplier Audit

Conducting Manufacturing and/or Construction Surveillance

Management of Non-Conformances

Quality Release Certificate Process (where applicable);

· Undertake actions to resolve issues relating to the implementation of quality and to bring about improvements, and support others in these actions.

Primary accountability

· Review, accept and monitor Contractors Quality Assurance Plans (CQAP) provided by the supply chain;

· Identify needs for supply chain audits, perform audits and resolve findings;

· Produce Project Quality Control Plans (PQCP) for each contract/project;

· In compliance with the PQCP, ensure deployment of key quality contractual arrangements including the General Quality Assurance Specification (GQAS), Lifetime Quality Records (LTQR) Specification, Quality Release Certificate and the Inspection & Test Plan Specification etc.

· Provide relevant guidance to contractors, including contractor's CQAPs, LTQR partitioning strategies and the arrangements for identifying and planning for Quality Related Activities;

· Lead the implementation of LTQR reviews;

· Support the determination and application of strategies for progressive provision of LTQRs by contractors.

· Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders including contracted inspection entities .

· Ensure manufacturing and construction surveillance per contract is applied in a graded approach of safety function and project importance through surveillance offers and performance monitoring of the inspection agencies used;

· Ensure overall effectiveness of ITPs submitted by the suppliers, checking that they are fit for purpose from a quality perspective and have been correctly distributed to the relevant internal parties for review and mark-up of the activities they wish to witness;

· Where applicable, establish and check planned inspection witness and hold points marked in the supplier Inspection and Test Plans (ITP) / Quality Plans / Follow Up Documents (FUDs) and monitor their completion;

· Coordinate, monitor and improve the efficiency of manufacturing documentation review and where applicable, inspection activities performed by contracted inspection entities;

· Coordinate and lead the NNB review and acceptance of relevant manufacturing and construction documentation provided by contractors;

· Perform joint inspections, surveillance and audit when required;

· Support the monitoring and technical resolution of non-conformances including the management of corrections and corrective actions;

· Support the review and acceptance of End of Manufacturing Reports (EoMR), End of Construction Status Reports (ECSR) and End of Erection Status Reports (EESR);

· Responsible for the review and delivery of the end of manufacturing records, leading to the quality release of equipment to the SZC construction site, or handover of rooms/buildings/areas;

· Produce quality documentation (e.g. specifications, procedures) as required.

Secondary accountability

· Implement the quality execution plan within the Programme and undertaken reviews and checks to ensure quality is delivered by the supply chain efficiently and in accordance with programme quality requirements;

· Identifying potential Quality issues before they arrive to enable mitigating actions;

· Ensure supplier quality control requirements are adequately specified within contract documentation submitted in the Invitation To Tender (ITT);

· Ensure quality management processes are correctly applied.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

Essential

· Position requires experience in project delivery, preferably in the nuclear power sector, with significant focus on project quality, with a solid understanding of the Quality Assurance and Quality Control in major projects across en