Quality Inspector

Our tomorrow is built on a firm foundation. Here at Balfour Beatty, we’re on our way to leading every market we’re in, and we have the strategy and momentum to get there. Join our the Quality Team that is part of the Engineering Team as a **Quality Inspector**on the **Major Highways** project and you’ll be part of it.

Assist the Quality Team to ensure that the M25 J10 is compliant and remain compliant with the quality requirements of its contract with National Highways.

As a **Quality Inspector**, you will be part of the Quality Verification Team (QVT) responsible for:

- Review and advise on Inspection and Test Plans/ MAR’s (material approval requests) submitted for approval, when required;
- Inspection and monitoring of construction site activities with a view to produce a quality product;
- Health and Safety reporting using the 'near miss’ observation system and acting with positive intervention;
- Providing full cooperation and communication with the different project Teams & Alliance Partners;
- Mentoring and guiding less experienced site staff;
- Witness testing of materials and performance acceptance tests;
- Inspection of critical items of work and release of hold points;
- Daily reporting, using an Ipad, of the progress of the works and any eventual issues identified;
- Positive intervention to prevent the occurrence of rework and NCRs;
- Provide assurance that the works are being constructed and delivered in accordance with validated drawings, specifications, and defined methods;
- Auditing of paperwork - Inspection and Test Plans, checksheets, site materials etc.;
- Participate and ensure that the Project is progressing to plan and to aid the construction team in proper and correct level of quality assurance required regarding the documentation for the Construction Certificate (completion Package Information packs);
- Actively participate in team construction meetings and report issues relating to quality and health and safety;
- Ensure issues are raised in a timely manner and to the right people;
- Offer solutions to problems as they arise on site.

You will have the following:

- Experience in the construction of major highways;
- Proven previous experience in a similar quality role (preferable);
- Good working knowledge of the Highways England document MCHW and the Specification for Highways Works (SHW);
- Ability to review and interpret the works information - Contract drawings and specification;
- Offer practical advice to solve problems as they arise on site;
- Good report writing skills;
- CSCS card;
- Driving licence;
- Must be a strong team player, with developed communication skills;
- Self driven, results oriented with a positive outlook.

**Why work for us**

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us**

We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put our customer, the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, delivering net carbon reductions and social value to the communities within which we work.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensurewe deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interviewif they meet the minimum requirements for the role.