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May 30, 2023 | Comments Off on Works Quality Inspector
We're looking for a Works Quality Inspector to join our Highways team based in Brixworth. The role sits within the Quality and Performance team across our two contracts, North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.
Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.
Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire
Contract: Full time, part time and flexible
Salary: £competitive + Pension + Benefits + Company Car
Responsibilities As Works Quality Inspector you'll be working within the quality & performance team, supporting them with the management of independent site inspections, providing assurance to management and clients that works are completed in accordance with works information and design requirements. Giving guidance and advice regarding the effective management of quality assurance and quality control, delivering quality management and improvement support to all projects and enabling functions.
Your day to day will include:
Working with the Senior Operations Managers, identifying when jobs / schemes are needing auditing, reporting jobs that haven't been audited and reporting the outcomes of audits
Conduct formal quality audits on schemes including post-completion inspections to assess long term quality and durability, compiling relevant documentation to close out issues raised from audit
Communicating with the delivery team to ensure full understanding of quality assurance requirements, providing them with expert advice and coaching where works do not achieve the required standard, being the mediator between all parties on any quality related issues,
Field based assessing of sites across North and West Northamptonshire, with the rest of the time spent collating findings and providing feedback to Senior Management and Operations teams, ensuring quality related KPI's are achieved, managing the key quality commitments across the contract, supporting of and co-ordinating quality including the monitoring of sub-contractors
Being pro-active in quality incident prevention, monitoring and recording effective corrective actions and control of non-conformances, analysing trends, and reporting accordingly, performing relevant investigation of root cause analysis, defects and other issues relating to quality
Who are we looking for? This role of Works Quality Inspector is great for you if you can:
Show an industry specific HNC or degree (Quality or Construction)
Demonstrate experience within a quality related role in highways or construction
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk 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
Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans
Kier's Green Car Scheme
A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits
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: kier.co.uk/sustainability/
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 focused 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: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf
Closing date: 27 June 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.