Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary package

About the Role
The Quality Lead is the senior quality leader for the Marine and Tunnelling (M&T) section, accountable for implementing Alliance quality requirements and ensuring safe, compliant and right-first-time delivery across the M&T scope. As a member of the M&T Leadership Team, this role provides quality leadership, advice and independent challenge to support delivery objectives while ensuring compliance with project, regulatory and contractual requirements. The Quality Lead leads the M&T quality team and drives the effective application of quality management arrangements, progressive assurance, certification and continuous improvement throughout design, procurement, manufacture, construction and handover activities.
Working in partnership with the Alliance Head of Quality, the role translates Alliance quality strategy into practical arrangements within M&T and provides assurance that quality risks, performance trends and organisational learning are identified and effectively managed. The role may represent the Head of Quality on specific matters, committees or forums within delegated authority.

Key Responsibilities
- Provide quality leadership to the Marine and Tunnelling Leadership Team, supporting delivery of safe, compliant and right-first-time outcomes.
- Lead the M&T quality team, establishing clear priorities, responsibilities and expectations aligned with delivery risks and programme objectives.
- Promote a strong quality and nuclear safety culture across M&T, integrating quality considerations into planning and operational decision making.
- Support delivery teams and suppliers in achieving quality expectations through visible leadership, coaching and constructive challenge.
- Provide timely advice to the M&T Technical Director and the Alliance Head of Quality regarding quality performance, risks and emerging issues.
- Ensure effective implementation of the CWA Quality Management System and associated quality arrangements throughout the M&T scope.
- Oversee compliance, graded assurance, audit, surveillance, non-conformance, corrective action and management review, including nuclear safety classified works and supply-chain activities.
- Plan and deliver independent assessments, inspections, quality reviews and certification in line with programme milestones.
- Establish meaningful performance measures and assurance insight, identifying systemic risk and directing targeted intervention.
- Lead investigation and resolution of significant quality issues and systemic weaknesses, driving lessons learned and continuous improvement.
- Ensure personnel undertaking quality-critical activities are suitably appointed, qualified and competent.
- Drive organisational learning through structured review, lessons learned and knowledge sharing.
- Provide input to resource planning and capability requirements for the M&T scope.

Why Work for Us
Our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious and meaningful infrastructure projects, strengthening communities and supporting national economies. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including flexible smart working with up to 40% remote working where roles allow, 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata), family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave, pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more, allowing you to shape a package that suits your life and career.

Experience
- Demonstrable quality leadership within major civil engineering, nuclear or similarly regulated infrastructure projects.
- Expert understanding of quality management systems, quality planning, assurance arrangements and progressive assurance throughout construction delivery.
- Comprehensive knowledge of nuclear safety culture principles, intelligent customer capability and organisational learning in a regulated environment.
- Proven ability to identify, investigate and resolve systemic quality issues, driving learning and sustained performance improvement across delivery teams and suppliers.
- Strong understanding of the asset lifecycle from design and procurement through construction, progressive assurance, certification and handover.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary quality teams and influencing delivery teams, suppliers and technical stakeholders to achieve safe, compliant and right-first-time outcomes.
- Practical knowledge of audit, surveillance, supplier oversight, performance monitoring and quality risk management.
- Ability to analyse quality performance data, identify trends and drive targeted interventions to improve delivery performance.
- Strong communication, coaching and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to provide constructive challenge and influence at all organisational levels.
- Ability to build capability within delivery teams through coaching, mentoring, training and sharing of lessons learned.

Qualifications
- Degree qualified in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management or related discipline.
- Chartered professional status in quality, engineering or an equivalent discipline.
- ISO 9001 Lead Auditor or equivalent quality auditing qualification.
- Significant experience of quality leadership within major civil engineering, nuclear or other highly regulated infrastructure programmes.
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams across multiple scopes and locations and developing and implementing effective quality processes, assurance frameworks, capability and culture.
- Experience of senior client, regulatory, certification-body and supply-chain engagement, particularly for nuclear safety classified works.
- Experience supporting client, regulator and third-party assurance activities within a major project environment.
- Experience in major civil engineering construction is essential.
- Experience in major tunnelling projects is highly desirable.