Quality and Risk Manager

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The opportunity

The Quality and Enterprise Risk Manager is at the heart of driving excellence and safeguarding our business as we grow. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to design and create impactful quality frameworks and processes that identify and tackle the most critical challenges we face. By partnering across all levels of the organisation, you'll ensure gaps are closed effectively, enabling us to achieve success with confidence.

You’ll play a crucial role in shaping our business process architecture by engaging and facilitating business stakeholders. By working collaboratively, you’ll empower teams to take ownership of their processes, ensuring they are aligned, streamlined, and support seamless business operations. With a focus on delivering accurate insights and pinpointing priority improvements, you’ll be a key player in fostering a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation.

In this vital role, you’ll own and develop the tools that power our Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, including designing and developing an industry-leading Quality Management System and robust Enterprise Risk Management processes. Your work will reduce compliance and performance risks, enabling us to meet our ambitious growth targets efficiently and sustainably.

If you're ready to make a significant impact, this is your chance to shape the future of our business in an exciting and rewarding way!

Pay, benefits and culture 

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place!’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment. 

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.  

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. 

What you’ll be doing

You’ll track Compliance and Performance: Implement an assurance programme to measure, monitor, and improve compliance and performance, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

1. Enhance Reporting: Use visual tools for clear performance tracking, enabling swift action on deviations at the right level.
2. Quality Management System: Provide an ISO 9001-aligned system to standardise and improve business processes.
3. Optimise Processes: Oversee the design and deployment of efficient business architecture and processes.
4. Encourage Organisational Learning: Build a culture that investigates and addresses deviations to prevent recurrence, learning from internal and external experiences.
5. Manage Risks: Lead the Enterprise Risk Management framework to identify and mitigate critical risks.

What do you need to be great at this role?

     You’ll have experience of leading the implementation of a management system, including gaining the buy-in from across the business to value it, such that business performance could be improved.

• Strong knowledge of how a business operates and a demonstrable ability to connect “the dots” across an organisation, in order to pinpoint where action is required, and which stakeholder need to be engaged.
• Evidence of being comfortable presenting findings and insights, even when the message may not be easy for the audience to hear, then getting their commitment to take action.
• Proven record of building trusting and credible relationships at all working levels of an organisation, including driving a behavioural and culture change agenda.
• Credible leader who has demonstrated an ability to provide inspirational direction and leadership, motivating large matrix teams to take action to address performance gaps.
• Leadership style that builds a sense of trust, empowerment and support within a team, whilst maintaining their personal accountability for benefit delivery.

An education to degree level or a demonstration of ability to the same level delivered in a working environment.

• Desirable to hold Lead Auditor qualification (ISO9001 CQI | IRCA)
• Advantageous to be trained in continuous improvement (e.g. lean practitioner) and/or root cause analysis.

Closing date for applications: 14th February 2025

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us. 

Join us, and let’s do good together.