Quality Control Engineer

Balfour Beatty Plc
  • Elgin, IL
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    Job No. BBUK21708

    Quality Control Engineer - Elgin

    Power T&D

    Risk Audit Quality

    Elgin

    Permanent

    About the role

    Build your future on a project that matters.

    What if your next career move could take you somewhere extraordinary?

    Join our Power Commercial team in Elgin as a Quality Control Engineer, where you'll have the opportunity to work on a complex and meaningful infrastructure projects, gain hands-on experience and learn from some of the best in the industry.

    This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to challenge yourself, develop your commercial expertise and build the skills and experience to take your career further. You'll be part of a team delivering work that makes a real difference, contributing to a project you can be proud of while shaping your own future with Balfour Beatty.

    What you'll be doing

    Role Purpose:

    To support Balfour Beatty delivery projects in accordance with customer and stakeholder requirements and commitments, including verification activities to demonstrate compliance against Balfour Beatty requirements, external accreditations and industry good practice.

    To ensure implementation of procedures including submissions from the supply chain and to assure supply of materials meet client requirements and are right first time, ensuring a defect free delivery.

    As a Quality Control Engineer, you''ll have the following accountabilities:

    • Attend factory acceptance tests and carry out supplier inspections, ensuring materials and equipment meet the required technical specifications and quality standards before acceptance.
    • Develop manufacturing Assurance Plans, using a risk based approach to focus inspections and quality interventions where they'll have the greatest impact.
    • Recognise and manage non-conforming materials, raise non-conformance reports and support root cause investigations to help identify problems and put effective corrective actions in place.
    • Produce and maintain accurate inspection and testing records, ensuring all relevant quality documentation is complete and ready for the handover of assets to our client.
    • Work with colleagues and suppliers to challenge existing process, identify opportunities to improve and help build a culture where quality is everyone's responsibility.
    • Ensure activities are carried out in line with relevant health, safety, legal and statutory requirements.
    • Live the Balfour Beatty Values
    • Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and Right First Time
    • You'll also contribute to wider team activities and support additional responsibilities as required.

    Who we're looking for

    The following qualities/experience are essential:

    • A proactive and self-motivated approach, with the confidence to work independently, manage your own workload and take ownership of tasks through to completion.
    • Strong communication and interpersonal skills allowing you to build effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, share information clearly and work collaboratively to resolve quality related issues.
    • A keen eye for detail and a methodical approach, ensuring inspections, testing and reporting are completed accurately and consistently, with any issues identified and addressed.
    • Good analytical, written and numerical skills, enabling you to interpret information, prepare accurate reports and make sense of technical data.
    • Good organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands, meet deadlines and adapt to changing requirements.
    • Confident IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office 365, alongside the ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications and an understanding of electrical and/or mechanical product testing.
    • A genuine interest in quality engineering and a willingness to learn, develop and build your technical knowledge.
    • A full UK Driving Licence.

    The following qualities/experience are desirable:

    • Trained ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and/or Internal Auditor
    • Understanding of manufacturing processes and process controls
    • Professional Quality Qualifications
    • Experience in attending, or carrying out, Factory Acceptance Testing
    • Experience in using Digital Progressive Assurance systems

    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.

    As a business Balfour Beatty are committed to supporting our staff in attaining and maintaining their chosen professional accreditation., along with reimbursing annual Professional membership fees.

    • Competitive Salary
    • 37.5 hours Monday to Friday.
    • Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
    • Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
    • Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
    • 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

    About us

    Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

    Balfour Beatty''s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world''s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

    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 ensure we 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. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

    To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ''Employer Recognition Scheme'' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

    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

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