Quality Manager

Brackley
2 weeks ago
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We're looking for a Quality Manager to join our Transportation team in Brackley, Northamptonshire. In this key role, you'll help drive excellence by ensuring project and contract deliverables meet customer expectations, comply with required standards, and align with our broader assurance strategy. Could this be you?

Kier holds a contract for Multi-Utility Diversions on the HS2 project, spanning an 80km route from Southam to south of Aylesbury. High-quality documentation is critical to the project's success, ensuring that site teams provide accurate details and complete work in line with the contract programme.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Brackley, Northamptonshire - remote working available, with travel to the client office on a regular basis and to satellite yards along the 80km route

Contract: Permanent Fulltime with some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 per annum + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

 

What will you be responsible for?

As a Quality Manager, you will oversee and strategically manage quality across all build activities within the contract.

Your day to day will include:

Develop and implement quality framework level assurance plans and processes

Ensure that the organisation complies with relevant quality, environmental and safety regulations

Define key quality metrics and establish monitoring and reporting systems

Conduct root cause analysis for quality issues and implement corrective and preventive actions

Provide training to the teams on quality standards, procedures, and best practices

Ensuring documentation provided to the client meets the required standards and specifications laid out in the contract.

What are we looking for?

This role of Quality Manager is great if you have:

Chartered status in the relevant professional body or appropriate professional qualification

Relevant degree (or equivalent) with proven experience within regulated utilities, infrastructure or the built environment sector

Full understanding of current Health & Safety Legislation, including HSWA and CDM

Full UK driving licence

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. .

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. .

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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