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Quality Control Manager
May 17, 2023 | Comments Off on Quality Control Manager
Location: 2 roles - 1 based in Wales, 1 based in Bristol
Contract: Permanent - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know.
Responsibilities
As Quality Control Manager you'll be working within the team, supporting the pre-construction and operational delivery teams with QA compliance & to manage the areas of quality throughout all the projects, to the required quality while maximising customers' satisfaction, project operating margins and the area's profitability.
Your day to day will include:
- Support and assist the Pre-Construction & Operational Teams to ensure a right first-time approach in quality management and specification compliance.
- Ensure compliance & operational management in Quality Control Systems, including auditing, risk management, investigations, complaint handling and report writing.
- Providing Quality-related training to equip the Project teams with the skills to drive improvements in Quality performance
- Ensuring the ISO accredited integrated management systems are effectively implemented & monitored, identifying opportunities, and implementing changes to drive continuous improvement
- Managing arrangements for and attending audits, both internally at group level.
- Identifying areas of concern and supporting the contract teams to deliver improvements and analyse the root cause of defects and nonconformities, implement corrective action and update processes with lessons learned
- Promoting a 'right first time' culture by ensuring all processes are mapped out and maintained to reflect contract operations, supporting the different teams in their delivery of the service through implementing guidance documents, workshop support and corrective action plans
- Making sure contract operations are compliant with business policies and standards, developing and managing the contract audit programme, carrying out internal audits against business policies to check and ensure compliance to business standards
- Promoting a 'right first time' culture by leading on information management and awareness of compliance needs.
- Driving improvements in Performance Excellence - always working to be better
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for applicants with the following skills and attributes:
- Work on own initiative, be proactive and highly organised and display a high standard of accuracy and attention to detail
- You have effective verbal and written communication skills
- You can effectively balance tasks and responsibilities to ensue all work is completed in a timely manner
- Understanding of ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 management system standards
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.
Benefits 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. Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- Company car/car allowance
- 26 days holidays per annum + bank holidays
- Pension matched up to 7.5%
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:
Who is Kier?
We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives:
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
You can see more about our D&I action plan here:
Closing date: 17th June 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.