About the Role
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The opportunity
As a Quality Lead, you’ll be responsible for establishing and managing a robust Supply Chain Quality Management System (QMS) for Asset Operations and Business Change Projects. Working alongside the Business-wide Quality Manager, you’ll focus on ensuring high-quality standards while maintaining agility in costs and operations.
In this role, you will:
- Oversee and govern quality requirements for all assets.
- Support projects and assets by managing part arrivals, supplier quality assessments, warehouse evaluations, and process improvements where dedicated quality resources aren’t available.
- Act as the link between supply chain and commercial teams, handling Non-Conformance Management Reports (NCMR) and supplier quality performance tracking.
- Maintain strong communication with CTO’s quality team, ensuring seamless information flow.
- Develop and support an engineering asset operations team to drive circular economy initiatives, ensuring efficient repair, reuse, or controlled disposal of parts within the IFS system.
- Establish and refine processes and procedures within the Business Management System (BMS) to measure quality performance, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement.
This role is all about eliminating quality issues while balancing efficiency and cost-effectiveness. If you’re passionate about shaping quality standards and driving impactful change, this is your chance to make a real difference!
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
As Quality Lead, you’ll establish and lead a Supply Chain Quality Team within Asset Operations, driving improved supplier quality monitoring and performance. Your key responsibilities include:
- Setting quality objectives aligned with business strategy.
- Developing and refining processes, procedures, and specifications to enhance quality standards.
- Ensuring compliance with safety, legal, and international quality standards.
- Managing Supply Chain Non-Conformance Reports (NCMR) to drive accountability.
- Monitoring quality performance, producing reports, and implementing improvements.
- Overseeing handover processes at key project stages.
- Leading procurement teams to define and uphold supplier quality requirements.
- Benchmarking EDF-RE UK’s performance against the wider EDF fleet.
- Providing quality training for peers, managers, and stakeholders.
- Investigating root causes of quality issues and implementing corrective actions.
- Conducting internal and external audits of suppliers and contractors.
- Collaborating with vendors to ensure compliance with EDF-RE standards and continuous improvement.
- Managing Corrective Action Plans (CAP) and tracking quality trends.
- Sharing lessons learned and best practices across the EDF group.
If you're passionate about driving supplier excellence, ensuring quality compliance, and leading meaningful improvements, this role offers an exciting opportunity to make a real impact!
What do you need to be great at this role?
We’re seeking a dynamic and experienced Quality Leader who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. If you’re passionate about driving excellence, influencing stakeholders, and making a real impact, this role is for you!
- 10+ years in Quality Leadership, with a strong track record of influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- Understanding of Asset Operations in Renewables (desirable).
- Strong communicator, confident in engaging with Senior Management.
- In-depth knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 14000, ISO 31000 & ISO 45001.
- Familiarity with Six Sigma, project management tools, and risk management.
Skills & Mindset
A problem-solver with a keen eye for identifying and resolving challenges.
Ability to write clear, concise reports that drive decision-making.
Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders, fostering collaboration and shared success.
A natural leader, skilled at motivating teams and driving change.
Experienced in risk and change management, both technical and non-technical.
What Sets You Apart
Commercially savvy, with an understanding of contractor performance, contracts, and delivery.
A confident communicator who can engage with contractors, sub-contractors, and employees at all levels.
Calm under pressure, able to make firm, timely decisions when needed.
Business-minded and commercially astute, always acting in the best interest of EDF-RE UK & the EDF Group.
Closing date for applications: 5th March 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.
What's in it for you?
Join us, and let’s do good together.
