About The Role
Central Operations Senior Quality Manager – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Location: Peterborough / Hybrid
Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of Anglian Water’s one Alliance, a collaboration that delivers about 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. In AMP 8 the Alliance is focusing on nature‑based, sustainable solutions such as wetlands and urban drainage schemes. This role is a highly influential quality leadership position shaping how quality is governed, assured and continuously improved across the one Alliance.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Providing enterprise‑wide leadership of Central Quality functions, setting clear frameworks, standards and ways of working for Business Unit Quality teams
* Operating the Alliance quality assurance cadence, translating predictive insight, audits and assurance findings into clear, prioritised actions
* Defining and governing cross‑Alliance quality readiness criteria aligned to Delivery Milestones through Detailed Design, Construction, Commissioning, Operational Handover and Financial Completion
* Maintaining programme‑level dashboards and thematic analysis to identify emerging risks, recurring defects and systemic performance gaps
* Coordinating escalation and resolution of systemic quality issues, ensuring root causes are addressed and improvements embedded into standards and guidance
* Chairing quality governance forums and acting as the authoritative source of Alliance‑level quality performance and insight
* Embedding lessons learned from audits, investigations and delivery feedback into Management System, Lessons Learned Exchange, standards and delivery guidance
* Leading the evolution of quality systems through digitalisation, automation and improved use of data
* Working closely with SHEA, Design Assurance, Supplier Quality and Commercial teams to align quality, safety, delivery and commercial outcomes
What You’ll Bring
* Extensive experience leading quality management and assurance within complex infrastructure or construction environments, ideally utilities or water
* Deep knowledge of quality management systems, auditing and standards such as ISO 9001
* Strong strategic mindset with the ability to translate data and insight into practical, preventative action at portfolio level
* A credible, inclusive leadership style with the confidence to challenge constructively and influence senior stakeholders
* Excellent communication and governance skills, with experience operating at enterprise or alliance level
Benefits
* Smart working, including staggered start and finish times, and up to 40 % remote working where roles allow
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family‑friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner’s leave
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more
Diversity and Inclusion
Balfour Beatty is a Disability Confident Employer and encourages applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, reservists and people with disabilities who meet the minimum requirements for the role. We support diverse talent through memberships in WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers.
For more information, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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