Quality Assistant
Company
Location
Woking, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/13/2025
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Description
About The Role
To be a member of the project quality team to work to the direction of the Project Quality Lead and Quality Engineers in conducting Quality Assurance and Quality Control work as a trainee within the team and to learn through experience and structured learning, the necessary competencies to fulfil the role of Project Quality Engineer.
What you'll be doing
To actively engage with the project Quality team and project to gain the necessary knowledge and experience to complete the apprenticeship in the 4 years period and achieve Competent Quality Engineer Status.
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
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:
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
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: [email protected]
To be a member of the project quality team to work to the direction of the Project Quality Lead and Quality Engineers in conducting Quality Assurance and Quality Control work as a trainee within the team and to learn through experience and structured learning, the necessary competencies to fulfil the role of Project Quality Engineer.
What you'll be doing
To actively engage with the project Quality team and project to gain the necessary knowledge and experience to complete the apprenticeship in the 4 years period and achieve Competent Quality Engineer Status.
- Carry out Quality Assurance work under supervision of experienced members of the team.
- Update Databases and Tracker.
- Support Internal Audit.
- Ensure that work assignments and qualification study work is completed and submitted on time.
- Attend Balfour Beatty training when organised.
- Participate in review sessions with line managers and emerging talent team as required.
- Work with others to ensure systems are in place, in conjunction with the Project Manager as appropriate, which allow the required specification to be clearly agreed with customers, customers’ technical representatives, project, sub-contractor supply chain.
- Work with others to ensure systems are in place to allow sample and benchmark plans to be established and agreed with customer, and sub-contractor supply chain.
- Assist in developing specific project / task quality plans.
- Work with others to undertake assurance that the Quality Plan is being followed and that requirements are being met.
- Support the development of either Project or Business Stream Quality strategies and plans and the implementation of measurement frameworks across the scope of services and full project lifecycle.
- Support the Quality team in dealing with external auditing governing bodies to maintain existing certification and continuous improvement.
- By using the principles of quality assurance, and where appropriate technical Integrity, ensure the customer requirements are clearly understood and that Quality Control mechanisms are in place that provide assurance that the asset and/or service delivers as designed/required.
- Work with others to produce project and/or business quality reports as required.
- Support the delivery of business stream quality programs and actions.
- Assist in training, coaching & developing quality skills in business streams.
- Support the establishment of a continuous improvement culture.
- Undertake specific investigations and/or report on quality related issues as required.
- Drive efficiencies through early project involvement and explore options to provide lean construction by understanding customers’ needs and expectations.
- Understand Lean principles and how to apply them in construction.
- Seek to understand and implement the appropriate digital toolset to support the project governance and quality assurance/ measures on the projects.
- Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
- Work experience or Part time employment.
- Has good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Good at building relationships and can influence effectivelly.
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…
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
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: [email protected]
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