Quality Assurance Manager
2 days ago
Exeter
Location: Exeter (Regional Role) Sector: Major Infrastructure / Rail / Civil Engineering Type: Permanent We are supporting a leading UK infrastructure delivery organisation with the appointment of a Quality Assurance Manager — a senior role shaping the quality strategy, culture, and performance across multiple business units. This position requires a strategic thinker with the credibility to influence at all levels, and the technical depth to strengthen quality systems, develop capability, and drive continuous improvement across complex engineering environments. The Opportunity The Business Quality Manager will be responsible for: Quality Strategy & Governance • Developing and delivering a unified quality strategy across the organisation., • Setting and managing business-wide quality objectives and KPIs., • Designing and delivering quality training to uplift capability across teams., • Building and nurturing a cross-business quality community., • Leading the development of consistent, lean quality processes and procedures., • Managing first-party audit plans, and supporting second/third-party audit activity., • Supporting project teams on quality planning, digital tools, and handover strategy., • Providing guidance on incidents, issues, best practice and lessons learned., • Contributing quality leadership into tenders, PQQs and work-winning activity. About You We are seeking a candidate with: • Significant experience in quality management within engineering or construction., • Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills., • Expertise in developing and improving management systems., • A proactive, collaborative, and solutions-focused mindset., • Chartered Quality Professional status (or working towards it)., • Quality culture across all business units, • Consistent deployment of quality tools and processes, • Reduction in quality issues and improvements in reporting, • Embedding digital and AI-led approaches to quality management