Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer
Are you looking to join the business that is building the West Midlands section of the largest infrastructure project in Europe?
Do you want to join a company that promoted over 20% of its work force in the last year?
Balfour Beatty VINCI is proud to be designing and building a 90KM stretch of the West Midlands section of HS2. We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Quality Engineer within the Quality Team.
This role will be based on site in Berkswell, Solihull.
With 13km of rural high-speed line Sublot 2B extends North from Dalehouse Embankment, through Warwickshire between Coventry and Kenilworth, Balsall Common and Burton Green to the River Blythe.
The strategy for Sublot 2B is to deliver the main structures enabling full connectivity across the two Network Rail corridor crossing – the Coventry to Leamington Spa Line and the West Coast Mainline at Carol Green.
While supporting the mass haul of materials from Sublot 2A to Sublot 2B and onward to Sublot 5 South.
The role aims to assist the Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture, working on HS2 deliver a world class railway in accordance with customer and stakeholder requirements and commitments, including verification activities to demonstrate compliance.
Also responsible to assist the co-ordination, submission, compliance and management of all assurance activities and the resolution of assurance related issues
Experience required
• Experience of Major Civil Engineering projects, preferably tunnelling, railways.
• Extensive experience of construction in the UK Nuclear,Railway and Highways sector
• Knowledge and experience of working to UK and international standards and codes of practice for the UK Nuclear, Railway and Highways sector.
• Quality subject matter expertise and proven track record in Quality Management
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role
Benefits of working with us
• Flexible working
• Remote working
• Enhanced maternity and paternity
• Access to Employee Assistant programmes
• Annual flu vaccinations
• Healthcare
• Excellent pension contributions
• Travel allowance for eligible candidates
• Car/ car allowance (add/remove if required)
About Balfour Beatty VINCI
Working together for over 30 years, Balfour Beatty VINCI have been successful in delivering several significant infrastructures; creating unrivalled expertise and capability across rail, highways and aviation sectors in the UK and beyond. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.
Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:
• 42 viaducts totalling over 11km
• 66 overbridges
• More than 35 cuttings reaching over 30km
• 56 culverts • 66 embankments reaching over 33km
• Building four motorway crossings requiring box structures
• Six interfaces with the existing rail requiring both dive-under and overbridge structures
Diversity and Inclusion:
Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) is delivering equal opportunity for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and supportive of anyone with a physical or neuro-diverse ability. We welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities. We are transforming the image of construction through working on the HS2 project and increasing diverse representation of Balfour Beatty Vinci through representing the communities we are working in. We have embedded ED&I Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively.
Flexible working:
Flexible or agile working is encouraged at BBV and we recognise the value and diversity of candidates which this can bring to our business operations. Not every role can provide a variety of working patterns to suit people's personal needs however we are happy to discuss agile working opportunities at BBV with you.
Disability confident:
We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is Disability Confident committed and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?
Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Quality Engineer within the Quality team. This role will be based on site in Coleshill. Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham international.
Role description:
To support the co-ordination, submission, compliance and management of all assurance activities and the resolution of assurance related issues.
Experienced required:
Experience of working as an engineer in a construction environment within Major Civil Engineering projects.
Knowledge and experience of working to UK and international standards and codes of practice for the UK Construction sector.
Trained ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and/or Internal Auditor.
Competent user of modern office computer systems e.g., Microsoft Office.
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.
Benefits of working with us
• Car/ car allowance 
• Flexible working available for some roles
• Free parking
• Travel allowance for eligible candidates
• Family friendly leave policies
• Excellent pension contributions
• Healthcare
• Health risk assessments
• Access to employee assistance programmes
• Access to annual flu vaccinations
About Balfour Beatty VINCI
Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.
Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:
• 9.3km of viaducts
• 62 overbridges
• 35 cuttings
• 56 culverts
• 62 embankments
• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses
Diversity and Inclusion
Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
Flexible working
We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements

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