Quality Lead

**About the role**
Balfour Beatty is a leading construction company, shaping the future of the UK’s infrastructure. We are currently seeking an experienced **Quality Lead** to join our Net Zero Teesside project.

As a key part of our team, you will provide expert quality leadership, ensuring that our project delivers right-first-time solutions, eliminating waste and improving quality performance.
**What you'll be doing**
As **Quality Lead,** you will be responsible for the overall quality management of the Net Zero Teesside project, delivering excellence in quality outcomes through a proactive approach. You will manage the quality resources, ensuring compliance with ISO 9001 and other project-specific standards, and will work closely with the Project Director and Project Leadership Team to maintain the highest standards of quality across all aspects of the project.

**Key Responsibilities**
- **Leadership**: Provide leadership to the project’s quality resources, ensuring a relentless focus on quality and zero harm.
- **Process Improvement**: Challenge systems and processes to drive continuous improvement, eliminate waste, and reduce the cost of quality.
- **Performance Monitoring**: Report on project performance relating to quality, implementing corrective actions and driving performance improvements.
- **Training & Development**: Coach and develop the quality skills of business streams and facilitate quality-related training.
- **Stakeholder Engagement**: Represent the business in client quality interfaces and build strong relationships with project teams, delivery teams, and external partners.
- **Compliance**: Ensure the project is compliant with all relevant quality standards, including ISO 9001, and industry-specific requirements.
- **Continuous Improvement**: Facilitate quality-related improvement initiatives and conduct root cause analysis to drive effective corrective actions.
- **Reporting**: Produce and deliver detailed reports on quality management performance to senior leadership and other stakeholders.
- **Sustainability & Safety**: Support the project’s sustainability roadmap and ensure the commitment to Zero Harm across all project activities.

**Who we're looking for**
At Balfour Beatty, we live by our core values:

- **Edge**: Make the right decisions for Balfour Beatty.
- **Excite**: Inspire others to outperform.
- **Execute**: Get the job done and done well.
- **Empowerment**: Provide clear targets and trust others to deliver.
- **Empathise**: Listen, understand, and adjust.

As a member of the Balfour Beatty team, you will also benefit from:

- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for career development and training.
- A commitment to sustainability and safety.
- A dynamic and inclusive team environment that values your contributions.

**Ready to Make an Impact?**

**Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.**

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

**Why join us?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

**About us**
Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high-speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point C. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.

From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK10926