Project Quality Lead

Project Quality Lead

Location: Birchwood Park, Warrington

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Purpose of the role

A practicing quality professional with good knowledge and experience in the delivery of projects in a highly regulated industry. Working as part of multiple project delivery teams supporting Quality Managers within the business to ensure that business level quality requirements and improvements are identified and delivered effectively and to process, plus supporting to ensure projects and contracts within the organisation are managed within the bounds of the agreed procedures, and that project quality requirements are maintained.

As part of the Project Management Office, the role reports into one of two Quality Managers, but will be expected to support both Business and Project level quality requirements.

Reporting to

Reports into PE&D Quality Managers as part of the PE&D Project Management Office, but day to day works alongside all business line Quality Representatives and Project Teams.

Key Accountabilities
Project Quality Lead shall be responsible for all QA and QC matters on projects, supporting the requirements of the Project Quality Team and the Business Line Quality and Improvement Team as needed. Delivering tasks and giving expert advice where needed to ensure that quality requirements across the business are delivered successfully.

Duties and Requirements
Candidate has demonstrable experience in aspects of Quality & continuous improvement including:

Lean / Six Sigma
Value Stream Mapping
LFE, Stakeholder Feedback and Governance/ Internal Audit
QMS/IMS development / Management
Authoring of Quality Management Plans and related documentation
Knowledge and experience of process improvement and problem-solving methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, 8D)
Identify, report and advise on risks and opportunities associated with meeting Client regulatory and legal requirements and stakeholder expectations within a project

Project Quality Lead shall be responsible for all QA and QC matters on projects, supporting the requirements of the Project Quality Team and the Business Line Quality and Improvement Team as needed. Delivering tasks and giving expert advice where needed to ensure that quality requirements across the business are delivered successfully.Project Quality Assurance:

Input into project specifications
Quality Documentation – Authorship
Manage Project Deliverables
Project LFE collation
Project LTR collation
Ongoing Sub-contractor Quality documentation review
Liaison with Sub-contractors
Liaison with Client 
Internal Audits
Client Audits
KPI monitoring
Project Quality Grading

Project Continuous Improvement:

Cost of non-conformance
Continuous Process improvement Development & Implementation
Change Management Support
 
Corporate Quality Representation:

Internal Audit support
Governance Support
Company Systems Management
Business Line representation on Corporate Strategy & change projects
Quality Grading Overview
External Audit Support
Corporate Quality Communications

Business Line Quality Support:

Data production to support Business level Quality KPIs
Support to Business Line Quality Communications
Business Line Quality Process, Procedures & Guidance
Management QMS & PMO
LFE process & wider business use
Stakeholder feedback
Process improvement
Support to Internal Audit
Provision of Business Line Governance & Assurance
Tender support
Knowledge Management

Business Improvement:

Continuous business improvement
 Lean / Six Sigma Support
Process improvement
Cost of non conformance