Project Quality Manager

at  McLaughlin Harvey

McLaughlin & Harvey are one of the leading Building and Civil Engineering Contractors operating throughout the UK and Ireland.
We are seeking to recruit an experienced and hands-on Project Quality Manager to join us at a local Project in Birmingham. The Project Quality Manager should be able to engage with stakeholders both internally and externally and be equally comfortable undertaking activities that support the business’s day-to-day quality requirements as well as engaging with clients, supply chain and regulatory authorities to identify and drive improvements.

EXPERIENCE

• At least five years Construction experience
• Good management/organisational skills, with ability to manage own time and meet strict deadlines in a busy site environment
• Understand and maintain company KPI’s in relation to future business improvement
• Experience in delivering presentations/training sessions
• Excellent technical knowledge of Construction and Civil Engineering best practices.
  Due to the nature of the role the successful candidate will be happy to travel and work throughout the UK.

Reporting into the Project Director, the successful Project Quality Manager will ultimately be responsible for coordinating and managing all QA and QC activities on the project.
The Project Quality Manager is a key part of the project team and will liaise with key members of the project to ensure that the Quality processes are communicated, understood and delivered against.

As Project Quality Manager you will also be responsible for the following duties:

• Review the clients requirements and feedback to ensure that these are being met and any feedback is being review and actioned
• Set high standards to promote a positive culture of quality
• Prepare and report quality KPIs to senior management and site staff including any trends
• Collaborating with purchasing and commercial staff to establish quality requirements from external suppliers
• Reviewing quality procedures in conjunction with operational staff on the project to ensure that these are fully understood and followed
• Set-up and maintain project quality controls and documentation to compliment the current McL&H processes
• Review existing procedures and processes and make suggestions for changes/improvements and how to implement them
• Measure the quality performance and identify any areas of weakness, recommending and implementing improvement
• Liaise with other managers and staff to facilitate training, tools and techniques to enable others to achieve quality standards
• Liaise with any regulatory authorities or external consultant
• Participate in senior management reviews, directly influencing the project quality requirements and key performance indicators
• Lead and review supplier quality assessments (via SCOPE) and any improvements initiatives in conjunction with the Procurement Director
• Champion root cause analysis sessions following the identification of a non-conformance
• Identifying lessons learned and communicating these across the project (and wider business if required)
• Perform stand-in duties for the Quality Advisor

Qualifications