Quality Advisor

**About the role**
We are seeking a dedicated **Quality Assurance Advisor**to join our team at Balfour Beatty, supporting our substation projects in the **Aberdeen and Peterhead areas**. This role is crucial in ensuring that our projects meet the highest standards of quality and compliance, aligning with customer and stakeholder requirements.

Join Balfour Beatty as a Quality Assurance Specialist and play a pivotal role in delivering our substation projects in the Aberdeen and Peterhead areas. You will ensure that all projects meet customer and stakeholder requirements, comply with industry standards, and adhere to Balfour Beatty's high-quality standards.
**What you'll be doing**
- Deliver projects in accordance with customer and stakeholder requirements, including verification activities to demonstrate compliance with Balfour Beatty standards, external accreditations, and industry best practices.
- Coordinate, submit, manage, and ensure compliance with all assurance activities, resolving any related issues.
- Implement procedures, including submissions from the supply chain, and establish test and inspection plans for project delivery.
- Support project teams in developing and following quality plans and inspection & test plans, ensuring customer and project requirements are met.
- Assist delivery teams in achieving required deliverables and managing issues, providing quality advice to the supply chain where appropriate.
- Utilise existing systems to establish and agree on sample and benchmark plans with customers and the supply chain.
- Use digital systems to monitor the performance of quality planning, production of quality deliverables, and managing issues against targets.
- Support project teams in collating and delivering handover records as per customer requirements, on time.
- Work according to the processes and procedures of the Business Management System.
- Support the Quality team during internal and external audits.
- Implement project or business stream quality strategies, plans, and actions across the project lifecycle.
- Assist in training, coaching, and developing quality skills, including sharing lessons learned.
- Foster a culture of continual improvement.
- Undertake specific investigations and/or reporting on quality-related issues as required.
- Support the use of appropriate digital tools to support project governance and quality assurance measures, including training on those tools.
- Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and Right First Time.

**Who we're looking for**
- Prior quality experience and/or relevant operational/technical experience to meet industry sector demands.
- Relevant academic qualification in quality management, in lieu of relevant experience
- Knowledge of ISO9000 terminology.
- Understanding and commitment to Quality Management.
- Awareness of business improvement initiatives.
- Ability to gather, analyse, and evaluate facts.
- Ability to work to plans and programmes.
- Attention to detail and commitment to seeing tasks through to completion.
- Strong relationship-building skills and effective influencing abilities.
- Ability to deliver reports orally and in writing objectively.
- Ability to challenge existing methods and ways of thinking.
- Ability to work within a multi-discipline team.
- Proficiency in modern office computer systems and technology (e.g., Office 365).
- Either a CQI Practitioner or working towards Practitioner status.
- Awareness of sector-specific certifications and their requirements.
- Experience using Digital Progressive Assurance systems/Electronic Forms.
- Operational experience in construction or asset management.

**Why work for us**
Alongside the amazing opportunity, support and pride that you will gain from developing your career with one of the world’s foremost infrastructure giants, you will also enjoy:

- Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
- Wellbeing sessions - non-work-related activities go for a walk, do some house duties etc.
- Opportunity to join into the company SIP scheme.
- Flexible benefits window Options to purchase additional holidays, bikes, tech vouchers, dental cover, PMI etc.
- Reward platform where you can get discounts off shopping, insurance, cars etc.
- Hybrid working (where applicable)
- Enhanced company sickness scheme
- Enhanced company Maternity/Paternity/Shared parental/Adoption schemes
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications
- Employee assistance programme
- Up to 2 days volunteering per year
- Company funded social events.

In joining the Power T&D team, you are joining a strong function, where you can join us as the first step on a lengthy career, or simply join us be the best you can be in your role we will support you either way.

We have a BB Academy, which is a great resource to support you with your learning and development.
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