Quality Engineer

Project Description

Balfour Beatty is one of three Joint Venture partners to design and deliver the Box Encapsulation Plant, enabling the safe conditioning of waste material from various nuclear donor plants.

Main Duties & Accountabilities:

• To review, and endorse as appropriate, Quality Plans and Inspection and Test Plans; undertaking associated compliance verification activities as appropriate.
• Understand and implement the processes necessary for the provision of timely appropriate Quality support to other Box Encapsulation Plant Delivery Team departments.
• Conduct Quality audits of the Box Encapsulation Plant site activities and sub-contractor operations on and off site as directed, in accordance with the Project Audit Schedule.
• Ensure the quality standards of the Box Encapsulation Project are consistently met, raising the authorised project documentation where this is not the case.
• Undertake the identification, review, checks and endorsement of concurrent Project Life Time Records (LTR).
• Off site visits to vendors fabrication facilities, witnessing welder tests, carrying out welding & material inspections, review of final documentation packs.

Essential Experience and Qualifications:

• 5 years' experience of working within a highly regulated environment, with major project delivery
• Minimum of 2 years nuclear industry experience and training
• Member of the Chartered Quality Institute
• Lead Auditor (IRCA Accredited) qualification as a minimum.
• Understanding of SL Commissioning pathway
• C.S.W.I.P. 3.1 Welding Inspector
• Practical Visual Inspection of Welds
• Conducting Welder & Weld Procedure Approvals
• Basic Welding & Engineering
• IOSH Managing Safely
• Have previously held qualifications in MPI, DPI & Radiographic Interpretation.

Security Clearance:

• Capable of achieving the Sellafield Baseline Personnel Security Standard as a minimum with a view to obtaining SC once in post

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

From wind farms to railways, through tunnels and over bridges; our design and construction teams have been successfully delivering complex projects for over 100 years.

We have a proven record of delivering and managing tailor-made infrastructure and construction schemes for each of our customers. Our recent schemes have included the London 2012 Aquatics Centre, Heathrow Airport's Terminal 2B, Whitelee Windfarm and the White City Development Substation.

We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Balfour Beatty is a corporate signatory to WISE (Women in Science & Engineering) and a member of Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme. Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture. We are a member of the workingmums.co.uk Top Employers' Charter through which we demonstrate our commitment to enabling parents to progress and enhance their careers whilst managing the challenges of family life.

Balfour Beatty is also Gold Award holders in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.