Quality Control Engineer

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Quality Control Engineer in our Operations Team based in Scotland, you'll work with true experts who'll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further. This role will be required to:

• To support Balfour Beatty, deliver the project in accordance with customer and stakeholder requirements and commitments, including verification activities to demonstrate compliance against Balfour Beatty requirements, external accreditations and industry good practice
• To support the co-ordination, submission, compliance and management of all assurance activities and the resolution of assurance related issues. To ensure implementation of procedures including submissions from the supply chain and establishing test and inspection plans for delivery of the works.
What you'll be doing
• Review supply chain quality plans/inspection & test plans and ensure that customer/project
requirements are being met.
• Assist delivery teams in achieving the required deliverables, and managing supplied material issues as required, also providing Quality advice to our supply chain where appropriate.
• Attend Factory Acceptance Testing of project materials.
• Support project team in collating and delivering handover records as per customer' requirements, on time.
• Support the undertaking of specific investigations and/or reporting on quality related issues as required.
• Communicate supply chain performance with internal and external stakeholder Complete site based Quality Control checks ensuring compliance to Balfour Beatty & Client requirements, Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us? As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits: - Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow. - 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata) - Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave - Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

The following qualities/experiences are essential:
• Demonstratable knowledge of substation primary plant equipment (from 11,000v up to 400,000v)
• A good understanding of UK Transmission/Distribution National standards/legislation as well as IEC standards
• Understanding of industry quality documentation
• UK Driving licence.
• Willingness to travel (sometimes internationally)
• The following qualities/experience are desirable:
• ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor trained.
• Experience in attending, or carrying out, Factory Acceptance Testing.
• Previous operational substation experience
  
  What makes Balfour Beatty a great place to work? Is it the limitless career opportunities, our inclusive culture, the scale and complexity of our projects or working alongside the industry's finest experts? Hear from our colleagues across the UK, US and Hong Kong on why you should shape a career at Balfour Beatty. Visit our website to find out more and explore our exciting career opportunities: www.balfourbeattycareers.com #ShapeEverything, Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects. Diversity and inclusion At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.