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Quality Engineer
November 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Quality Engineer
Quality Engineer - HS2 Old Oak Common
Market comparable roles: Quality Professional, Assistant Quality Manager, Assurance Engineer, Certification Engineer, Quality Inspector
Project: Old Oak Common HS2
Location: London NW10
Laing O'Rourke has a requirement for a permanent Quality Engineer to join our team. Are you an engineering professional who wants to develop your career? Do you have a desire to improve your engineering competency? Then the role at Old Oak Common can support your development.
As part of the HS2 works our specialist division will be working on the main super station hub at Old Oak Common. The main construction of the 850m-long reinforced concrete station box, which will form the frame and the base for the HS2 station building, began on 27 October and will see Expanded excavate 20m below ground level removing 690,000 cubic metres of clay, before placing 32,000 tonnes of steel and pouring 190,000m3 of reinforced concrete. The form of excavation known as "top down" construction allows the ground floor slab to be constructed initially with a series of mole holes allowing access for the large excavators to remove the earth from within. Take a look at our digital model for the station box.
Digital Model on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8ohnXf3js&t=1s
The role has a variety of tasks and operates a self-delivery model rather than subcontractor reliance. You will work with a number of influential people and specialist teams from the civil engineering and rail sector.
Supporting the project delivery to meet the project's quality needs by providing engineering expertise in a rail stations box / civils capacity.
What can we support you on:
- Pursuit of becoming a chartered engineer and membership fees
- Additional internal and external courses (TWC, AP, APM, Agile etc)
- Industry leading development of engineering competencies
- Major projects experience
- Development of management skills
Responsibilities include:
- Carry out and provide Quality Control Inspection support to the project delivery team.
- Provide guidance on the implementation of the Quality Control Inspection including the preparation of Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), Request for Inspections (ITRs) and Mock-ups and Benchmarks
- Interface and liaison with the Project Third Party Inspectors in relation to Quality Control Inspections on site with regard to CC3* structural elements.
- Liaise with Client's Quality representatives and Third-Party Inspectors, building trusting collaborative relationships
- Support and carry out the inspections of all concrete pre and post-pours, independent inspections before Third Party and Client inspectors' carryout their inspections on the completed installation
- Review nonconformities and assist delivery team in closing them
- Assist in carrying out site weekly inspections and prepare reports
- Review and comment upon completed ITP Quality Record Packages by engineers
- Collaborate with Engineering and other parts of the project as part of One Team working.
The type of knowledge that will help you thrive in the role or add to your skill set include:
- Enabling works through to delivery of structures / infrastructure
- Understanding of offsite manufacturing
- QCI Plans
- Quality control procedures
- Basic understanding of BIM
- Chartered, working towards Chartership or a desire to pursue Chartership
The position will be based on site at Old Oak Common (W3 Post Code) and working a Monday to Friday with occasional weekends. It is a great opportunity to enhance your site experience and establish strong working relationships with the project team.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.
Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
Diversity & Sustainability:
We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.
We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.
We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.
Additional:
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