Quality Engineer

Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

Job Description

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will manage the Quality Assurance functions for allocated projects. The role will require regular site attendance in line with the construction programme. This will usually be a 60/40 split between site and working from home in any week e.g., 3 days on site/2 days home working, though this is dependent upon the pace of delivery and assurance/control activities within your specialism.

Responsibilities

• To provide the Project with accurate and timely quality assurance guidance.
• To manage the Quality Assurance functions for allocated projects, assisting the Project(s) and Suppliers to produce the required Lifetime Quality Records (LTQRs).
• To determine by audit the level of compliance within the Project to ISO 9001 and any Client and/or Regulator specific requirements.
• To assist with Supply Chain assessment and surveillance activities against ISO 9001 and Client/Regulator requirements for all First Level Safety Critical suppliers and provide professional support to the Project for all supply chain quality issues.
  
  

To effectively manage allocated quality related staff and resources.

Qualifications

• Experience of technical authoring.
• Experience with using quality tools & techniques.
• Able to carry out investigations and produce reports.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience of civil engineering projects in defence environments advantageous
• Experience of working within a joint venture / alliance / matrix reporting organisation is advantageous.
• Hold Quality Assurance qualifications relevant to major civil engineering projects.
• Membership of the CQI and/or relevant Quality Assurance/Control professional body.
  
  

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.