Quality Lead

Quality Lead

You will be reporting to the Operating Officer (COO), the post holder will be responsible for the management of io’s corporate BMS and ensuring on going ISO 9001:2015 certification. The role also requires supporting io’s projects as a project quality manager (PQM). It is envisaged that 50% of the role will be dedicated to projects and 50% of the role dedicated to corporate activities.

Location:

London

Contract/Permanent:

Permanent

Responsibilities

Corporate Quality Leadership:

• Manage, maintain and improve the io corporate quality management system
• Own the relationship with io’s third party ISO9001 auditor
• Maintain io’s ISO 9001 certification
• Drive improvement into io’s corporate quality systems
• Maintain corporate functional KPI statistics for monthly and quarterly management reporting
• Audit the effectiveness of the processes to authenticate conformance, identify any non-conformities and support continual improvement
• Own the management review process
• Plan and manage quality awareness education for all employees at io

Project Quality Leadership:

• Through new and ongoing relationship building, keep abreast of current trends within the energy and environmental markets (e.g. Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Renewables, Water Treatment, etc)
• Identify new market opportunities and profile customer needs, from which to develop new sales campaigns and value propositions.
• Develop a strategic approach to grow our business in the energy and environmental industries.
• Develop and maintain Business Plans for established clients and capture plans for new clients.
• Create sales presentation material as well as contribute to new service introduction initiatives.
• Support the promotion of the brand through digital means and attend key industry events.
• Lobby decision-makers to penetrate new markets.
• Drive market and competitive analysis.
• Answer bids and support deal closure.

Who are we looking for:

• Extensive experience with quality requirements for projects with high engineering/technical content, economic modelling and planning aspects for large-scale infrastructure
• Ideally has experience of energy transition projects
• Ideally has experience working within in the front-end of energy projects
• Needs to be able to work autonomously across projects and corporate quality roles
• Ideally has experience of a start up but not essential
• Any HSSE experience would be a benefit, but it is not essential.
• Experience in a client facing, project environment
• Quality audit training & experience
• Continuous improvement driver / change agent
• Strong organizational & communication skills
• Fully computer literate (MS Word/Excel/Outlook)
• General project process knowledge
• Quality audit experience
• Analytical and reporting skills
• Change implementation skills and track records
• Ability to prioritize work and lead action until closure
• Understanding and experience of problem solving methodology