Senior Quality Manager
First Military Recruitment · Estimator · viaReed
£75,000 - £80,000 per annum
- Closing date
- 30 Oct 2026
- Posted
- 4d ago
- Specialism
- Estimator
- Sector
- Construction
- Reference
- reed-57447167
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MB962: Senior Quality Manager
Location: Swindon
Salary: £75,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP
Overview:
First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic national construction business who are looking to recruit a Senior Quality Manager on a permanent basis due to growth based at their Swindon depot.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support strategic quality planning and contribute to business wide quality initiatives
- Develop Quality Plans and documentation for bids ECI phases and project start up
- Act as the initial Quality Manager during mobilisation of new projects
- Deliver internal audits in line with the company audit schedule
- Conduct supplier reviews supply chain assurance visits and external audit support
- Maintain and manage nonconformity logs ensuring timely closure
- Visit active projects to review quality performance and provide guidance
- Lead or support quality improvement projects and business improvement planning
- Facilitate lessons learned forums and ensure insights are shared across teams
- Deliver training and coaching on quality matters to non quality staff
- Support communication campaigns such as World Quality Week
- Attend industry seminars and share learning with the wider business
- Promote required cultures such as Nuclear Safety and Collaboration
- Deputise for the Head of Quality Management when required
Skills and Experience:
- Experience in nuclear defence utilities or other highly regulated sectors
- Exposure to large Tier 1 contractor environments
- Experience delivering training or coaching on quality topics
- Knowledge of integrated management systems
- Experience supporting second and third party audits
- Familiarity with business wide improvement planning and cultural development
- Strong background in quality management within construction engineering or major infrastructure
- Experience delivering ISO 9001 audits IRCA 5 day course or equivalent
- Ability to develop Quality Plans procedures and assurance documentation
- Experience supporting bids ECI phases and early project mobilisation
- Strong understanding of document control processes and EDMS platforms such as ProjectWise 4Projects ASite Themis
- Knowledge of ISO 19650 and document numbering standards
- Experience in supply chain quality supplier assessment or development
- Ability to analyse quality data identify trends and drive improvement
- Confident communicator able to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Competent in MS Office particularly Excel and Word
MB962: Senior Quality Manager
Location: Swindon
Salary: £75,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP
What you need to do now
Applications are handled by First Military Recruitment on their own site — BOQQS does not collect CVs or hold your application. This listing closes on 30 Oct 2026.
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