Senior Quality Practitioner

  • Job Reference: 59583
  • Date Posted: 18 September 2024
  • Recruiter: Cavendish Nuclear
  • Location: Warrington, Cheshire
  • Salary: £49,000 to £60,000
  • Sector: Administration, Consulting & Corporate Strategy, Engineering, Government & Defence
  • Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Quality Practitioner
Location: Warrington, Bristol, Newbury or Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Up to £60,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59583

At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Practitioner at our Warrington, Bristol, Newbury or Leicester site.

The role
As a Senior Quality Practitioner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will provide functional advice, guidance and support to the business on all matters related to the delivery of a project, ensuring outputs meet customer and regulatory requirements.

  • Day-to-day, you'll play a key role in project delivery, proactively supporting and advising on all aspects of quality and assurance management on our innovative project, including risks and issues, as well as implementing improvements.
  • Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with both internal and external customers to ensure quality requirements are defined and standards are met.
  • Developing and managing quality and assurance arrangements.
  • Developing and implementing appropriate auditing arrangements within the project, both internally and externally (e.g. Suppliers).
  • Ensuring any project quality non conformances / issues are managed and closed out.
  • Facilitation of project reporting.
  • Ensuring Supplier quality arrangements are reviewed and approved / acceptance in accordance with project requirements, including Customer approvals.
  • Undertake quality planning, including the preparation of the project quality documentation and as required the writing of project specific procedures / local working instructions. The inclusion of health, safety and environment aspects should be consider in drafting the project quality documentation.

This role is full time 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 - 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 - 3 days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Practitioner

  • Experience working in a quality or assurance position
  • Knowledge of all relevant regulations and legislation
  • Knowledge of the Customers quality requirements
  • Experience overseeing or leading a small team within a project delivery environment
  • Have a proven track record preferably gained within a similar role in the Nuclear or other highly regulated industry (e.g. Aerospace)

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Practitioner

  • Qualified to degree, HNC or equivalent in a relevant subject e.g. engineering.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
  • 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
  • Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.
  • Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
  • Opportunities to develop your career.

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 30/09/2024

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