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Job Title: Senior Quality Practitioner
Location: Warrington, Bristol, Newbury or Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60401 At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Practitioner at our Warrington, Bristol, Newbury or Leicester site. The role
As a Senior Quality Practitioner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be at the heart of ensuring excellence and compliance across every phase of this critical project. This is your chance to shape and drive quality standards, lead impactful audits, and embed a culture of continuous improvement. Your expertise will support key operational goals, ensuring processes are efficient, effective, and aligned with industry-leading practices. Day-to-day, you'll ensure the smooth execution of quality processes while engaging with teams to maintain high standards. Support the project in quality planning activities, liaising with the QC&I team to ensure quality requirements are captured in all project phases. Designing and executing risk-based audit programmes to evaluate both internal and supplier compliance. Leading audits and managing non-conformance data to implement solutions that address root causes and prevent recurrence. Facilitating investigations into quality events and overseeing corrective actions to drive sustainable improvements. Championing quality awareness initiatives such as newsletters, toolbox talks, and lessons-learned workshops to foster a culture of excellence. Collaborating with Procurement to assess supplier capabilities and ensure alignment with project quality standards.
This role is full time 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 - 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 - 3 days working from home. Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. Essential experience of the Senior Quality Practitioner - Strong working knowledge of root cause analysis techniques.
- Proven experience facilitating client audits and auditing both product and service providers.
Qualifications for the Senior Quality Practitioner - Lead Auditor certification (ISO 9001:2015 is essential).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. What we offer - Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together. We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. Closing date: 06/01/2025  |
