Quality Engineer

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Starting Salary: £44,287 – £50,367 dependant on skills & experience.
Bonus: Up to 10% base salary per annum, based on achievement of Company targets and personal performance.
Working Pattern: Days (37 hours per week, typical hours are 07:30 – 15:40 or 08:10 – 16:20)
Location: Sellafield, West Cumbria

What will the successful candidate be doing:

Project Quality Engineers provide assurance that the quality management system is effective, efficient and implemented in alignment with the Quality Programme. Providing assurance that quality products and services that satisfy stakeholder requirements and specifications are being delivered. Will identify improvements and facilitate delivery of quality improvement programmes.

The ideal candidate must be able to establish management systems, plan for quality projects, apply quality assurance and control and drive continuous improvement across the profession.

Responsibilities include:

• Verifying that quality requirements are adequately specified and complied with at a project, facility/operations level, within Sellafield Ltd and in the supplier chain.
• Interface and engage with key stakeholders to promote a joined-up approach to quality and safety across Sellafield.
• Assess the ability of suppliers to meet specified requirements and participate in Evaluation Boards as necessary.
• Work collaboratively with integrated teams to prepare and implement quality plans and inspection plans, including co-ordination of surveillances required to monitor quality standards in line with specifications.
• Review and accept relevant documentation including supply chain quality submissions.
• Define and implement QA/QC activities (including measuring, monitoring, verification, validation and certification) to deliver the expected results;
• Provide coaching on quality tools and practices to guide others on how to achieve the best outcome and achieve right first time.
• Analyse QA/QC outputs (e.g. using appropriate statistical techniques and root cause analysis) to determine products or services conform to requirements; engage with integrated teams to determine potential solutions.
• Liaise with the quality control and technical service providers to deliver objectives.
• Communicate quality performance to management to enable effective decisions and appropriate mitigating actions. Monitoring, measuring, auditing and reviewing.
• Apply improvement tools and techniques, and structured methodologies to analyse problems and implement solutions to provide benefits to the business.
• Investigate quality related concerns and events, and identify appropriate corrective/preventive action, escalating quality issues to management.
• Identify and implement quality improvements and influence management to implement changes.

The Ideal Candidate:

Essential Skills:

• Graduate in relevant discipline OR professional qualification (e.g. CQI Diploma (Level 5), LRQA Independent Auditor, etc). Membership of the CQI or other relevant professional body. Lower level qualifications may be considered and accepted for candidates with substantial professional work experience in quality related roles.
• Operational experience within Sellafield or in an environment with similar complexity and risk, sufficient to understand and review end to end processes and propose quality improvements.
• Ability to form effective working relationships with Stakeholders.
• Good communication and IT skills, both verbal and written to produce clear reports.
• Experience undertaking quality audits and assurance activities.
• Experience monitoring the quality performance and outputs of the quality process.
• Experience of data collection, analysis, and interpretation, developing improvement actions/programmes, and use of KPIs to measure and report quality performance.
• Knowledge and ability to review technical specifications as well as quality documentation e.g. procedures, quality plans, test procedures.

Why choose Sellafield?

Seventy-five years ago, we helped to create the nation’s nuclear deterrent. Today, we’re using our unrivalled knowledge of nuclear to create a clean and safe environment for future generations.

In cleaning up the birthplace of the UK’s nuclear industry, we are once again generating growth and employment in West Cumbria, the North West of England and beyond.

Our 11,000 strong workforce is joined by more than 40,000 people from the best of the best in the nuclear supply chain, from small Cumbrian businesses to global market leaders. We need this diversity of thinking, of backgrounds, cultures and experiences.

What’s in it for you?

At Sellafield Ltd, we are committed to supporting our employees in fulfilling their potential. With 100 years of work in front of us, we offer comprehensive training and development opportunities, enabling you to feel inspired in your role. Whatever area you join us in, you’ll find a genuinely exciting and rewarding career.

Making sure our employees feel supported is important to us. Therefore, to help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we also offer a range of employee benefits:

• Be a part of Sellafield’s 100 year mission.
• An attractive defined contribution pension scheme – the company will match up to 13.5% for a 7% employee contribution!
• You will be eligible to take part in an Annual Incentive Scheme, which provides a bonus payment up to 10% base salary per annum based on achievement of Company targets and personal performance rating as discussed with line management.
• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays. Plus, the ability to purchase 2.5 days per year.
• The ability to carry over 10 days annual leave each financial year.
• Paid Sick Leave.
• Family Friendly Policies – Visit our Rewards & Benefits page to read more.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Lifestyle Benefits sasra.co.uk
• Learning & Development Opportunities https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/learning-and-development/
• Reward & Recognition Policies.
• Welfare & Employee Assistance Programme.
• Free Aviva Health App & Annual Health Check.
• MyDiscounts – Employee Savings & Discounts.
• MyBenefits – A Charity Giving Scheme.
• Many, many more! Click this link to visit our Rewards & Benefits page: https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/rewards-and-benefits/

Please Remember:

• As part of the application process you will be asked to provide evidence of your qualifications. Attaching them at application stage will ensure a smooth process and prevent delays.
• In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, Sellafield Ltd reserves the right to close the advert early.
• Please regularly check your Spam/Junk folders for news about this vacancy, correspondence could contain invitations to interview and other important updates.

Sellafield Ltd are recognised as a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3). Disability Confident employers offer an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. Sellafield Ltd define the minimum criteria as the ‘essential skills’ which are listed on the vacancy notice. Whilst completing your application form, you will be able to indicate if you wish to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If you would prefer to discuss this directly with us, please contact the GBS Recruitment team on recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk.