Senior Quality Engineer

Role Overview

Senior Quality Engineer at AtkinsRéalis in the Engineering Design (ED) directorate. This role provides quality assurance and quality management oversight across design consultants, sub-consultants, and internal design delivery for major programs including NEOM.

Company Overview

AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together with industry partners, clients, and a global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we engineer a better future for the planet and its people.

Role Purpose

Establish and maintain a right-first-time quality culture across all design delivery partners, ensure compliance with contractual and statutory requirements, oversee design consultant quality management systems, and drive continuous improvement through lessons learned and performance monitoring across the program.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Strategy and Framework

• Undertake regular review of legislative and statutory requirements to determine those applicable and their program impact.
• Assist the ED Directorate in ongoing review and approval of design consultants' Quality Management System documentation (Quality Manual, Plans, Processes, Guidance and Templates).
• Support the ED Directorate's management of QA-related records.
• Ensure a culture of project lessons learned and wider program continual improvement is embedded within the ED Team, including Design Project (DP) staff, Designers, Contractors and NEOM, championed by the QA team, maximizing opportunities for lessons including internal project completion reviews and supporting client experience.
• Support the DP innovation strategy.
• Support the preparation of Design Management Review presentation and supporting documentation.
• Support the output from Design Management Review being issued and ensure raised recommendations are closed out by allocated parties.
• Bring failings or potential quality breaches during the design phase to the attention of the Head of Quality in Design.
• Act as focal point and subject matter expert for all design quality-related matters in NTL.

Project Management of Design Consultants and Sub-consultants

• Establish a right-first-time culture across the client team and all design consultants that puts quality at the heart of design project delivery.
• Ensure design consultants implement appropriate quality management arrangements, supported by deployment of competent resources, that extend throughout their organizations including sub-consultants, ensuring they establish plans for successful delivery.
• Ensure design consultants' quality systems and processes are fully aligned to contracted requirements and support NEOM's procedures for project fulfillment.
• Ensure NEOM's auditing of design consultants and their sub-consultants' quality management arrangements provides overall assurance to the Chief Projects Officer and identifies issues for immediate resolution.
• Ensure design consultants and their sub-consultants implement appropriate and achievable Stage Gate processes, achieving design outputs consistent with contracted requirements, fully supported with appropriate records.
• Identify and schedule stakeholders' (Proponent and Projects teams) requirements to review and witness design consultant quality activities.
• Ensure design consultants implement appropriate arrangements for identification of design non-conformance and their subsequent rectification and remediation.
• Lead investigations jointly with design consultants into significant design failures and recurring non-conformances, monitoring implementation of corrective and preventive action plans.
• Establish procedures for progressive collation of learning amongst the client team and design consultants, monitoring implementation of subsequent continual improvement.
• Establish an effective working relationship with the Design Director(s) to ensure support and oversight of ED management of design consultants' quality.
• Ensure appropriate assignment of available resources to support individual design disciplines.
• Act as the point of contact for all design-related quality issues.
• Ensure ED corporate quality KPIs are managed and achieved.
• Develop discipline-specific quality in design KPIs as required.
• Produce quality in design reports as required.
• Attend design consultant quality focus meetings and audits as required.

Quality Administration

• Attend quality function team coordination meetings as required.
• Participate in and make positive contribution to required external coordination meetings.
• Ensure program staff awareness of quality-related lessons learned opportunities and information through issuance of technical bulletins and case studies.

Quality Reporting

• Support issuance of ED Quality Reports on a regular basis, particularly focusing on NEOM and DP ED including trends in KPIs.
• Ensure QA team and field teams are reviewing designers' quality reports and attending relevant coordination meetings, including trend in KPIs.
• Ensure QA team and field teams are reviewing sub-consultants' quality reports and attending relevant coordination meetings, including trend in KPIs.
• Establish, collate, and monitor performance measures based against ED quality objectives, with particular focus on performance of contractors.
• Conduct trend analysis of data to support reporting and recommendations to the ED Director and Quality Director.

Staffing and Training Activities

• Support ED QA on-boarding and induction awareness, providing suitable information for the audience.
• Support the ED QA section of program training matrix to meet quality needs, including course content and feedback.
• Ensure training is being completed in line with competence needs.
• Support administration of ED QA staff in accordance with program policy.
• Conduct performance evaluations that are timely and constructive.
• Support external best practice QA team networking events and opportunities for the QA Team and wider program.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Business, Engineering, or field related to the role.
• Relevant professional membership: MCQI or equivalent.
• Competence in the discipline to which the role is attributed (Civils/Structural, MEP or Architectural).
• 10 years plus experience in related senior QA Management role required, a significant amount of which should be working on mega construction programs and quality in design.

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to work with Senior Managers and Directors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

Additional Information

• Worker Type: Employee
• Job Type: Regular
• Tax-free salary
• Life insurance coverage
• Medical insurance
• Annual leave balance
• Company gratuity scheme
• Discretionary bonus program
• Annual flight contribution
• Transportation and housing allowances
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition