About The Role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an
Area Quality Manager to join our Regional team, working in the
North West of England and Wales.
Please Note: Travel across the region will be necessary, including occasional visits further afield for Quality forums and factory inspections.
Role Purpose
- Support both preconstruction and construction teams to drive continual improvement and promote a positive "Right First Time" message.
- Be a key player in supporting all projects, proactively sharing knowledge and lessons from previous and ongoing schemes.
- Foster a healthy quality culture and improve performance by reducing errors.
- Shape and enhance how the wider business manages quality as part of the England and Wales quality team
What you'll be doing
As An Area Quality Manager, You Will
- Support Preconstruction Projects: Plan for quality and deliver "Right First Time", sharing lessons learnt, best practice and feedback with relevant teams.
- Conduct Site Visits: Undertake regular inspections to identify areas for improvement, supporting teams and supply chains with necessary assistance.
- Promote Continuous Improvement: Drive best practices and share lessons to achieve better outcomes, occasionally delivering training to project teams and the supply chain.
- Ensure Smooth Handovers: Work with project teams to enable defect-free handovers, ensuring client satisfaction and positive project legacies.
- Produce Regular Reports: Generate reports for the Area Leadership Team and Delivery Unit, highlighting best practices, areas for improvement, and quality performance.
- Implement Quality Systems: Support the region in implementing quality systems and processes, participate in initiatives and focus groups, and contribute to the business’s quality strategy and action plan.
Who we're looking for
Essential Personal Qualities And Experience
- Project Experience: Experience in delivering civils projects, either in design or construction.
- Strong Communication Skills: Ability to make and maintain healthy working relationships.
- Leadership Confidence: Comfortable working with Senior Management and challenging existing ways of working to support business improvement.
- Team Collaboration: Capable of working within a multi-discipline team.
- Self-Motivated: Able to manage own calendar efficiently.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at:
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