Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Location: Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Quality Manager

Location: Bristol, Warrington or Newbury + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF62756

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Quality Manager at our Bristol, Warrington or Newbury site.

The role

As a Quality Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a key part in shaping quality assurance across highly regulated and complex projects, ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory and internal standards.

Day-to-day, you’ll oversee project quality planning, ensure supplier arrangements meet expectations, lead investigations into non-conformances, drive continuous improvement, and engage with internal and external stakeholders on all aspects of quality delivery.

1. Lead and advise on all aspects of quality management across project lifecycles.
2. Ensure supplier quality documentation is reviewed and approved in line with requirements.
3. Implement and manage quality audit arrangements (internal and external).
4. Manage quality non-conformances, ensuring timely resolution and learning.
5. Provide quality input into bids, tenders, and project delivery documentation.

This role is full time 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Quality Manager

1. Experience working in a highly regulated industry, ideally nuclear or defence.
2. Strong understanding of ISO 9001 and quality management systems.
3. Experience with full project lifecycle.

Qualifications for the Quality Manager

1. Ideally qualified to HNC or equivalent in a relevant subject, e.g. engineering.
2. ISO 9001 Lead or Internal Auditor trained.
3. Member (or working towards membership) of the Chartered Quality Institute.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check(SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 05/05/2025

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