Quality Assurance Engineer

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The Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity at Heysham 1 Power Station to join the team as a Quality Assurance Engineer. The role supports the implementation, monitoring and continual improvement of the station integrated management system. You’ll be working to meet the requirements of the site licence and facilitate third party certification audits.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a starting salary between £44,112 and £66,648 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. 

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What You’ll Be Doing

Principal Accountabilities

• Supports the Quality Management Group Head and the Technical Safety Support Manager as required, in establishing, implementing and maintaining a coherent and integrated management system within NG that adheres to company policy, to the requirements of IAEA Safety Standard GS-R-3 – The Management System for Facilities and Activities, and to other standards adopted by the company.
• Implements and manages the company station management system manual for the station.
• Prepares and manages station audit / outage surveillance programmes to improve process / areas of poor performance.
• Acts as a Lead Auditor or an Auditor in order to provide independence to confirm adequate arrangements are in place for satisfying site licence requirements, statutory regulations, company and local directives and procedures.
• Arranges and conducts audits as Lead Auditor, and monitors closeout of corrective actions and supervises and assesses the performance of trainee auditors / lead auditors.
• Implements outage quality assurance requirements to support successful outage outcomes.
• Assists on investigating Significant Events, as requested to challenge the quality assurance requirements, and reflect the station audit programme with effectiveness reviews / emergent audits.
• Reviews Quality Plans and Contract Enquiry Technical Specifications, in consultation with the Specifier.
• Attends contract inaugural meetings ensuring that suppliers understand the contractual quality requirements and are made aware of our standards and expectations.
• Provides management system expertise, support and guidance to the station process owners, departments and process owners to assist them in ensuring that quality standards are met with a consistent approach and that good practice is shared throughout the business unit.
• Supports training of staff regarding the Graded Application of Quality Assurance, development and use of quality plans and for the Stations Process Owners regarding process management.
• Collates lessons learnt from Fleet Process Audit findings in which the station did not participate, and from LRQA findings from all sites and facilitates their review where applicable by the Station Process Owner.
• Completes effectiveness reviews on the implementation of lessons learnt from the audits / inspections / surveillances / interventions as agreed by the station management team.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement at local and business level and communicates these appropriately.
• Supports the station with the external assessments, and ensures staff are aware of the expectations of these groups.

Who You Are

• As a minimum, applicants must hold a relevant HNC level qualification or equivalent.
• Lead auditor qualifications for ISO9001, 14001 and 45001 would be desirable.
• Experience of auditing integrated management system as a lead auditor
• Able to confidently discuss audit scope, objectives and findings with internal and external auditees at all levels.
• Able to demonstrate independence of mind, impartiality and objectivity in all situations.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills both verbally and in writing at all levels.
• Has a sound appreciation of an effective management system in the nuclear or other technically oriented industry.
• Takes an active role to promote activities that support safe and reliable operation of the plant and maintain full compliance within agreed safety, quality and environmental standards and expectations.
• Compiles information from their audits and fleet audit findings, outage surveillances, INA inspections /surveillances, ONR interventions, LRQA assessments and performance indicators to assist with the production of monthly reports to the station management team.
• Interacts closely with the station QC Lead (if applicable to station) on the outage preparations and enhanced QC measures on the significant risk areas.

Closing date for applications: Sunday January 5th, 2025             

Interviews to be held week commencing Monday January 13th, 2025  

Applicants will be required to obtain CTC level vetting prior to taking up their duties.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

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