The Environment Agencies Monitoring Laboratories are seeking a Quality Technical Specialist to implement a Quality Management System (QMS) within our National Fisheries Laboratory (NFL) at Brampton, Cambridgeshire. You will work alongside a team of technical specialists and delivery leads to understand quality gaps and scope requirements which will allow you to lead on the integration and implementation of a QMS, in alignment with MLs existing QMS. You will deliver a programme of works to enable the NFL to meet agreed quality standards, ensuring that the QMS supports analytical work processes and meets the level of quality specified by our customers, and to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 standards. You will work alongside the diagnostic specialists for fish health, ageing and species to ensure that the data they produce is fit for the purpose it is being used, specifically in relation to controlled pathogens and species. You will be the point of contact with the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) to understand requirements to achieving accreditation. You will be part of the NFL leadership team and Monitoring Laboratories Quality Management Advisory Group and will have links to other groups within DEFRA and beyond. You will implement management procedures and assure that accurate management data is available to the NFL and ML management teams. You will have a key role in interpreting quality requirements and implementing quality systems to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard and integrating these changes within our processes. You should be able to balance the quality requirements with needs of the customer to ensure that our reputation as a leading laboratory is maintained. Finally, responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident.