Quality Management Lead; Client Side

Job title

Quality Management Lead (Client Side)

Permanent

Role – Quality Management Lead

Reference – EDFJP

Location – Hinkley Point C site

Arrangement – Permanent

NUVIA UK's Technical Services & Consulting department is fast growing with hybrid opportunities available up and down the country. We're striving to create a multidisciplinary team to offer our clients the best range of talent.

This is a unique opportunity to be involved with the generation on Hinkley Point C, a nuclear power station in Somerset, set to power six million homes with low-carbon energy to support the UK’s net-zero goals.

BPSS clearance will be required at basic level. Prior clearance will not be transferable

We are currently looking to recruit for a Quality Management Lead (QML) to ensure HPC Project quality requirements are complied with across the full project life cycle (Contract award, Design, Procurement, Manufacture, Test, Shipping, Construction/Installation, Test/Commission and Contract close out). This position will be site based 3 days per week and working offsite 2 days per week with the supply base as and where required.

As the QML you will ensure supply-chain adherence to the contracted quality assurance and quality control requirements. QMLs sit within the Quality Management Team and are deployed to Programmes to serve this primary purpose. Day to day reporting is to the Quality Management Team Lead (QMTL) and Quality Delivery Manager (QDM) who sets out their Programme quality requirements and ensure QMLs perform adequately and implement the right processes to deliver to programme quality requirements.

This includes, but is not limited to, the development and implementation of Project Quality Control Plans.

In addition, the work carried out by QML’s supports the HPC Quality Director, HPC Deputy Quality Director, the QDM and their programme in achieving adherence with the Integrated Management System arrangements, putting in place additional project‑specific arrangements as required and managing quality for all activities within the scope of the programme. This includes ensuring the PQCP’s are suitably updated, to evidence the execution of the quality arrangements and the current progress / status of the associated products and site installations.

You will work in close collaboration with all other project functions and the supply chain to ensure that project quality is delivered consistently (safely, efficiently and right first time) compliant with the scope of work and quality arrangements.

Principal Accountabilities

• Implement key quality arrangements related to the following topics where applicable to your assigned scope of work.
• Support the development of quality (QA/QC) arrangements for deployment across the HPC organisation.
• Manage Quality Execution.
• Support Technical Assessment of Suppliers.
• Management of Non-Conformances.
• Quality Release Certificate Process.
• Arrange collaborative Quality Meetings with Contractor and NNB Stakeholders, to facilitate improvement in RFT, NCR and LTQR Performance.
• Undertake actions to resolve issues relating to the implementation of quality and to bring about improvements and support others in these actions.
• Review, accept and monitor Contractors Quality Assurance Plans (CQAP) provided by the supply chain.
• Identify needs for supply chain audits and engage Supply Chain Auditors to perform audits and prompt resolution of findings.
• Produce Project Quality Control Plans (PQCP) for each contract.
• In compliance with the PQCP, ensure deployment of key quality contractual arrangements including the General Quality Assurance Specification (GQAS), Lifetime Quality Records Specification (LTQR), Quality Release Certificate (QRC) and the Inspection & Test Plan Specification (ITP) etc.
• Lead the implementation of LTQR reviews.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders including contracted inspection entities (for offsite manufacturing in particular, Direction Industrially is a key stakeholder).
• Ensure manufacturing surveillance per contract is applied in a graded approach of equipment safety function and project…