Quality Engineer

Our work matters to millions. It'll matter to you too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Quality Engineeronthe Hinkley Point C Project and you'll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.

About Hinkley Point C

The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.

Marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of our nuclear power industry, Hinkley Point C will make a major contribution to the UKs move to reduce carbon emissions. The electricity generated by its two EPR reactors will offset 9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, or 600 million tonnes over its 60-year lifespan.

As a Quality Engineer, you will have the following accountabilities.

• To maintain the highest degree of professionalism in all dealings related to the
• To report on quality metrics for the measurement of performance of the Works.
• Assist in Audits on Project Activities as per project schedule and ad hoc.
• Review Lifetime Quality Records for compliance.
• Interact cross-functionally with project team members and management.
• Maintain CAR / NCR logs, Lesson Learned.
• Assist QA Area Lead in Contributing to management reports.
• Champion Foreign Material Exclusion, preventing ingress or entrapment of non-
  specified materials, loose items, or debris in equipment and /or systems during
  assembly and testing.

Do you have?

• Qualification in an engineering discipline, ONC / HND (or equivalent experience)
• Preferred membership of chartered quality institute and IRAC auditor training.
• Experience in a progressively responsible Quality Engineering positions
• Ability to achieve a high-level security clearance.
• Nuclear and Major Project experience would be a benefit.

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.

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.

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 employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.