Would you thrive leading and continually improving Product Quality Performance for Europe's most advanced concrete products facility, Laing O'Rourke's Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction?

Are you passionate about driving the quality of the industry's most iconic Building & Infrastructure projects?

Are you an exemplary communicator, decision maker and customer focused?

 

Then we would love to hear from you!! 

 

The Opportunity:

We are looking for an open and honest Quality Manager to join the team at the Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction (CEMC) in Steetley, Nottinghamshire.   CEMC is at the heart of Laing O'Rourke's commitment to offsite manufacturing, and is the industry leading offsite precast facility, which began production in July 2009, manufacturing a range of products including walls, floors, columns, beams, platforms and bridge components for Laing O'Rourke's and external client's projects throughout the UK.  Current projects include Everton's new stadium, Olympia redevelopment, Oxford Humanities and various HS2 packages.

Take a look at the facility: https://youtu.be/NuVqXPhsID0

The successful Quality Manager will manage and continually improve the Product Quality Performance across all areas of CEMC, delivering value for clients and the internal business.  They will set the frameworks and processes required to ensure CEMC and Client Product Quality requirements are effectively achieved.

This is a leadership role, and a Subject Matter Expert on our products and associated quality requirements, that acts as the Quality conscience of the manufacturing facility, and exists to help set the Quality culture and drive continual improvement in product quality within CEMC

What will the role look like?

Providing Quality support to the core teams within CEMC and be the main Product Quality contact for all internal and external stakeholders. Promoting a Right First Time and Quality Culture within the organisation, understanding key risk areas and opportunities for improvement, and driving improvement action on these key topics. Providing guidance and support on Non-Conformance, ensuring adequacy of corrective actions, and suitability of proposed actions to prevent problem re-occurrence in support of continuous improvement. Complete statistical analysis on identified Non-Conformance and provide regular reports to inform on Quality performance. Facilitate learning and improvement through robust problem solving, Root Cause Analysis and Collective Insight Workshops. Representing Quality in various meetings, whether internally, with suppliers or with Clients. Responsible for developing and monitoring Quality performance through effective and reliable reporting. Supporting the development and provision of Inspection and Testing Plans and manufacturing execution documents to ensure suitability prior to commencement of works Ensuring progressive assurance and delivery Quality Records Supporting the Production teams, providing training and guidance on Quality topics and lessons learned from events Undertaking regular Surveillance to oversee the Quality of the works and intervene when works are at risk Managing the Quality function, covering Quality Inspectors, Lab personnel and Production Engineers, following the Laing O'Rourke Inclusive Leadership model

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Excellent knowledge of concrete products and quality standards - alternatively other building materials backgrounds will be considered Experience of Quality Management in a complex Manufacturing facility or Construction/Engineering Projects. Good understanding of client quality requirements within the construction industry Practical experience in the generation and maintenance of key Quality documents such as Inspection and Test Plans, Project Quality Plans, Standard Operating Procedures Experience in key Quality tools, such as Root-cause analysis, Problem solving methodologies, corrective/preventive action 

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

 

Would you like to hear more about us?

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.

Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

 

Diversity & Sustainability

We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.

We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.

We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

 

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