Quality Manager

About Sweco

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

What will you be doing as our new Quality Manager?

As our new Quality Manager your role will be key to providing the @one Alliance with analysis of work carried out and creating salient reports to show where work doesn’t meet the standard expected. Working with project teams and suppliers to ensure all work is up to standards, where work does not meet standards, you’ll lead process to ensure that future defects are avoided.

Therefore, you’ll play a vital part in enabling @one Alliance to improve the quality of work carried out and reduce the need to revisit future defects, improving customer and stakeholder confidence.

Key responsibilities:

• Assure that products built on-site or at supply chain premises are delivered to the required design and standard by carrying out pre-delivery quality inspections and witness testing as identified in the project plan.

• Escalate concerns and agree remedial actions with the project delivery teams and recording these as lessons learnt and Rework within M2I.

• Support the Site Manager in delivering ITP and witness testing pre/during/post critical on-site activities as identified in the project plan.

• Ensure the m2i rework list content is up to date, monitor corrective actions and ensure they are closed out. Ensure data is submitted on a monthly basis and delivery documentation completed promptly to enable project close out.

• Working actively and supportively at the direction of the Line Manager to ensure the AMS remains current, is followed, and reflective of @one Alliance activities, values and stakeholder needs.

• Auditing projects against CPMS, IPT, and quality management systems, etc.

• Working actively and supportively at the direction of Line manager to ensure @one Alliance and AW teams are competent and able to utilise all aspects of the AMS through the development and delivery of Workshops, data updates, process training, and system familiarisation.

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours….

To join the SHEA team, you’ll have previous experience of working within the water industry alongside this you’ll have experience with lead auditing and detailed knowledge of ISO9001. You’ll hold Strong IT skills, especially in databases and Excel and have the ability to communicate to a wide range of audiences.

Operating with a collaborative approach, you’ll hold strong stakeholder management skills and be confident in challenging and influencing groups and individuals at all levels. Always looking to offer the best level of customer service through engagement and support, you’ll be self-motivated and demonstrate strong leadership and values.  

If you are ambitious, driven, and ready to take the next step in your career journey in this key role, please apply today to join the SHEA team! 

@OneAlliance vision

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

@OneAlliance Values

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Eight partners, endless opportunities.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco.  We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed  the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?

If you’re an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to use the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, please contact GB_Function-HR-Resourcing@sweco.co.uk for assistance.

In order to address your request the following information is needed:

• Name

• The best method for contacting you (Phone or email)

• The position title

• Requisition/vacancy number

Upon receipt of this information, we’ll respond to you promptly to obtain more information about your request.

Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.

Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity.  We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.

We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs.  Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.

Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in December 2023 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We’ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2024 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.