Quality Manager
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Christian Held
Benefits
Life assurance
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Additional holiday purchase opportunities
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
Enhanced family leave & policies
Share plan schemes
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Quality Manager
We're looking for a Quality Lead/Manager to join our Thames Water framework team based in East Hyde.
Location: East Hyde - some remote working available, with occasional travel to the other offices required.
Hours: 45 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide strategic quality management and oversight across our design and build activities. As our Quality Lead/Manager, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring our project outputs consistently meet and exceed customer expectations whilst maintaining compliance with internal and external standards. You'll be instrumental in shaping our overall assurance strategy, working with a committed team delivering innovative solutions for Thames Water's major capital projects and frameworks.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Quality Lead/Manager, you'll be working within our Thames Water team, supporting them in delivering excellence across all stages of our design and build projects. Your day to day will include:
- Developing and implementing quality framework assurance plans and processes across the contract
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate quality controls throughout the delivery process
- Ensuring compliance with industry standards, regulations, and client-specific requirements
- Defining key quality metrics and establishing monitoring and reporting systems
- Analysing quality performance data and providing regular reports to management
What are we looking for?
This role of Quality Lead/Manager is great for you if:
- You have experience within the utility sector supervising teams
- You hold a Full driving licence
- You possess NRSWA street works qualification and SMSTS
- You have an NVQ Level 3 in Occupational Work Supervision (CSCS Gold)
- You're highly organised with strong IT skills and a professional approach to multitasking
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-CH1.
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Location: Luton
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Vacancy ID: 10812
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Background check: None
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Closing Date: 8 May 2026
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Flexible Working: Yes
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
