Quality Manager

May 30, 2022 | Comments Off on Quality Manager

At Kier we believe that - wherever we can, whether office or site-based - we should embrace an agile/flexible approach to working. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to do this. Please don't hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around agile working and flexibility - We'll do our best to support you.


Job Title: Quality Advisor

Location: Scotland, Glasgow

Business area: Kier Construction - Build Northern & Scotland

Contract: Full time, permanent (Monday to Friday)


At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes private healthcare, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday), together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).

Some of our other benefits include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer

  • Kier's Green Car Scheme

  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover

  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands


Being one of the leading regional builders in the UK means many things to the team here at Kier Group. Our people are trusted to deliver projects of all sizes and complexities, across very diverse sectors, throughout the country. Join us and you could be involved in building anything from a strategic asset costing hundreds of millions of pounds, to a small-budget school extension that creates priceless classroom space. Whatever you do, you'll be making a difference on projects that matter, every day of your working life.


Key responsibilities:

Are you a Quality Advisor who has the technical knowledge and experience to facilitate continual improvement in projects and the capability to develop and maintain systems to measure performance? Providing quality and visible leadership and quality inspections on site, as well as identifying risks and controls through tender stage to completion, you will work closely with the delivery and aftercare teams and the supply chain. You will be working with the preconstruction team to identify risks and controls at tender stage as well as the projects team until handover and completion. You will need to encourage work to be kept to Kiers standards by communicating with internal and external stakeholders, whilst using Airsweb and SharePoint for reporting. We will be looking for you to drive continuous improvement organising on site quality training through our suppliers with the project teams and looking at setting up post project reviews to capture valuable lessons learned, the successful candidate ideally will have working knowledge of digital quality management tools such as SnagMaster and drive consistent use across all projects supporting the teams in training.


What do we need from you?

A sound knowledge of construction, quality management standards and quality control tools. Also, bring your communication and people management skills to the role to enable you to succeed.


Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.


Your chapter can start now, and we can build our inspiring story, together.


Closing Date: 29th June 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.


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