Total 90 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Warrington, Cheshire, M1 4BT

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager, Control Execution

SALARY: £42,120 - £46,800

LOCATION(S): Chester, Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 2 days per week at Cawley House, Portland Street or Wellington Place.

About this opportunity

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. We're putting in place a fresh operating model for non-financial risk management across Lloyds Banking Group, empowering our people to take end-to-end accountability for managing the risks they face.

This assistant manager role is within our Library Control Execution Team which is a core part of the Consumer Lending Chief Controls Office. We use our operational knowledge of the Group structure and Consumer Lending business unit to lead the application of the risk taxonomy and improvements in the control environment. You'll be designing, implementing, assessing and improving controls across the whole taxonomy for all of the Lending business.

Supervising and supporting a range of control management processes and activities in alignment with the Group's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF). Managing the timely and accurate production of high-quality documentation, reporting and analysis to support development of the control environment:

• Working with risk and control owner teams to help deliver against aligned customer, business and strategic outcomes.
• Producing timely and accurate documents and reports by collecting risk and control data from a variety of sources and input data into standardised formats.
• Assisting the development of the first line control management centre of excellence that supports safe growth and enables high quality customer service.
• Delivering prescribed outcomes by working with established control design, mapping, monitoring and testing approaches. Reporting findings to senior colleagues.
• Assisting in the management of actions on operational risk events and breaches following Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA). Identifying issues and then suggesting and implementing improvements to the control environment with guidance from senior colleagues.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you'll need

We're looking for someone who can apply Operational knowledge of our Consumer Lending business unit sufficiently to be able to support a range of processes relating to implementation of the Risk Taxonomy, RCSA management and control execution. Ideally with experience in a related field (eg audit or risk & control management) or, alternatively, having gained capability through experience in a similar function along with:

• Control management - experience of data-led control management and its practical implementation. Good organisational skills to support the preparation of documentation that includes summarising data and information to produce and maintain standardised risk and control process maps. Ability to provide support to the ongoing development of control tooling solutions to enable optimisation and automation of the control environment.
• Data & Analytics- ability to understand and assimilate different sources of data and complex information to support with effective problem solving that leads to relevant conclusions and recommendations. Experience of bringing to bear strong analytical skills to support the assessment of the control environment effectiveness using a wide range of information and sources to identify potential impacts on the business.
• Reporting- ability to provide support with control testing activity to enable the production of concise reporting outputs on the efficiency and performance of controls and compliance.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION(S): Chester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

We're recruiting for a Lead Quality Engineer to work closely with the Engineering Lead within the Embedded Finance Team.

This is a key role offering a unique and challenging opportunity to shape the growing Embedded Finance Tech Team and Quality Engineering framework.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.

The Embedded Finance team is a fast-paced start-up group within Consumer Lending and is tasked with building out propositions that solve customers' financial needs, when and where they are. We have just launched our first product, Black Horse Flex Pay, and we're developing innovative products aiming to offer customers and merchants modern ways for online purchasing, with the ethos of Lloyds Banking Group responsible lending.

As the Lead Quality Engineer, you'll be in charge of leading all aspects of the quality roadmap, including creating testing strategies and coordinating the automation process using standard software testing practices.

Plus, you'll work closely with developers, business partners and product managers to build the testing framework and test suites to support our continuous deployment pipeline ensuring robust and efficient releases.

Aside of hands-on contribution, you'll hire and grow a team of Quality Engineers, developing people by coaching and technical leadership.

You'll provide Quality Engineering oversight and technical expertise throughout the entire software lifecycle, in a complex scenario integrated with third-party systems.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need:

• Strong Quality Engineering background, including automated testing frameworks and testing best practices

• Automation-first approach, with a passion for driving productivity and a focus on reducing risk

• Experience with cloud environment (e.g. GCP) and testing infrastructure

• Proven leadership skills in guiding Quality Engineering teams or complex programmes using Agile methodologies

• Proficiency in coding languages such as Java, Python, or similar

• Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Familiarity with Embedded Finance or financial services applications

• Experience with Jira Align and Confluence

• Familiarity with SQL and Snowflake

• Experience on non-functional testing on live systems at scale

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Your new company
Join a reputable local organisation that specialises in hospitality leasing across the UK. Based in Chester, this growing company is looking for a fantastic administrative professional to join their property help desk team, supporting with administration and compliance processes.
Your new role
You will be supporting the property team to make sure any compliance obligations are met. You will be in regular communication with licensees and other third parties in regard to compliance certifications, inspections and change of tenancy.
What you'll need to succeed
Good computer literacy is essential to this role as you will be required to utilise a number of internal systems and databases to manage the compliance process, as well as creation and management of orders. Excellent administrative skills, with prior experience working in a similar role, this position will require stakeholder engagement and management. The selected candidate will display exemplary customer service, communication and attention to detail.
Knowledge of statutory legislation or experience within property maintenance is an asset but not a requirement.

What you'll get in return
Be a part of an open and inclusive company who put their employees at the heart of their business. Join a team of passionate, hard-working, dedicated, and ambitious people today! Monday-Friday 35hrs per week
What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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Job Title: Compliance Contract Manager

Salary: £42,000 - £46,000

Contract: Permanent

Location: Northwest

Weekly Hours: 35 per week, (Monday to Friday)

So…. What is this role exactly?

This is an exciting opportunity for a Northwest based Compliance Contract Manager (Electrical & Fire Safety Systems) to take responsibility for the delivery of EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Reports) and the service and maintenance of fire safety systems.

Are you a Compliance Contract Manager (Electrical) looking for a fresh challenge? Are you looking for an employer, where 88% of existing employees would recommend them as a great place to work?

We are looking for someone who has a passion for electrical compliance and strives to continuously improve the service area they deliver.

What will my working week look like?

You will be homebased, living in the Northwest, within a reasonable travelling distance of our head office in Birchwood Warrington, to attend meetings and training courses when required. You will be required to visit our head office approximately twice per month.

What will I be responsible for doing?

As a Compliance Contract Manager, you will….

• Be the appointed person and organisational lead for ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory obligations for Electrical Testing and Fire Safety Systems through the delivery of servicing and repairs.
• Effectively manage contractors to ensure the delivery of a value for money and quality service to customers.
• Monitor and report on budget expenditure and support financial planning and budget setting, developing, and maintaining asset registers and condition reports to shape future investment programmes
• work closely with key internal colleagues, providing technical guidance and support, along with developing design briefs and technical specifications
• be required to travel at times to cover the operational requirements of this role (you will live within the Northwest to be able to travel around our geographical area)
• have your own vehicle with mileage is paid at the HMRC rate
• be part of an ‘on-call’ rota (payment received for this)
• have experience of delivering servicing & maintenance contracts to a large and diverse portfolio of mixed tenure properties and associated budgets.

And what would make me stand out from the crowd?

To be a successful as a Compliance Contract Manager, here at YHG, you will have….

• CIH Level 4 or equivalent or willingness to undertake this qualification
• BS7671 18th Edition Qualification, NVQ Level 3 Electrical Training Qualification or another recognised electrical training qualification
• An understanding BS 5839 Fire Detection & Alarm Systems for Building
• Experience of delivering electrical and/or fire safety system servicing & maintenance contracts to a large and diverse portfolio of properties and buildings
• Knowledge of building, construction and maintenance industries including the design process, contractual matter, and legislation
• Experience of producing a variety of written documents including responses to customer complaints, design briefs, technical specifications, performance reports, policies and procedures
• Experience of delivering electrical servicing & maintenance contracts to a large and diverse portfolio of properties and buildings
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation, including Control of Asbestos Regulations, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety Order) CDM Regulations 2015
• Experience of setting and managing budgets and expenditure reporting
• Proven experience of managing contractors developing successful relationships, achieving challenging targets and objectives
• Experience of managing external contractors and the development and application of performance management procedures

Ideally you will have

• Ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbally) to a diverse range of stakeholders, and influence at all levels
• Ability to explain complex repairs & maintenances issues to a non-technical audience
• Ability to manage a number of services and projects simultaneously, often with conflicting priorities
• Ability to confidently challenge contractors for areas of underperformance and/or unacceptable behaviour
• Ability to strictly adhere to work schedules and deadlines

This role is really suited to someone who likes to show their knowledge in relation to electrical compliance in a professional manner, while ensuring YHG continues to improve and drive-up standards in electrical safety.

This role also offers genuine progression opportunities add in here the next realistic progression step for this role or any realistic training/qualifications we can offer.

So, if you are excited by what this role can offer and the ability to have a genuine impact here at YHG we would love to hear from you please check out the role profile, which is attached/available by visiting the vacancy on Your Housing Group’s website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.

That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?

In return we offer £42,000 - £46,000 for a 35-hour week, and 25 days (pro-rata) annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

We trust our people to manage their own diaries, if you need time for an appointment, the school run or an exercise class, as long as it fits with business needs, we’re open to what works for you too. And when you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House – our wellbeing, social, collaboration and meeting space, in Birchwood, Warrington.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through BHSF, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.

For more of our great benefits, please see the benefits information sheet attached/ available by visiting the vacancy on Your Housing Group’s career’s website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.

And who are Your Housing Group?

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.

As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

As part of our pre-employment checks, this role requires the successful applicant to complete a satisfactory Basic DBS check.

Closing Date: 19th November 2024

We review applications as they’re received and reserve the right to close this advert early; if you’re interested, please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability, if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview. Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers, however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application. YHG2

Lecturer in Computing
QA Higher Education, Full Time Role
Face2Face or blended LOCATION London or Birmingham or Manchester
Are you a Higher Education Lecturer in Computing looking for a role within a dynamic organisation, where you can be proud and feel rewarded watching our students succeed?
We have an exciting opportunity to be part of our growing and expanding campus. We are student centric and very passionate about our contribution to our students' future ………come join us!
Your focus: As Lecturer, you will be responsible for our students' progression and academic achievement up to level 7 (postgraduate). Planning, preparing, teaching modules both online and in the classroom using our innovative delivery methods and cutting-edge curriculum. You will provide guidance and support to our students with your knowledge and expertise, powering each student's potential.
Bring your experience: Applicants should have suitable and relative experience in teaching general programming (e.g., Python) and with at least one speciality such as Cloud Computing or Web Development or Mobile Development or HCI/UX Networking or IOT or Cyber Security or Data Science or Big Data or DBMS or Relational Programming or Artificial Intelligence or Knowledge Engineering or Deep Learning or Information Systems. Must hold a Masters degree or higher in Computer Science/IT or related subject areas. A teaching qualification and HEA membership would be distinct advantageous.
Significant experience in face-to-face teaching of higher education students in classes of varying sizes within a subject area taught by the faculty is required.
Ability to demonstrate hands-on technical competencies is essential.

What we can give you:
Access to innovative delivery methods, and exciting course material.
Chance to work with like-minded educational enthusiasts; able to share and learn delivery best practice and industry leading knowledge.
Receive specialist coaching and support from your education leaders.
A little more about QA:
Students preparing for undergraduate study. Working professionals looking to specialise in their field. Career changers. Everyone should be given access to outstanding higher education and our aim at QA is to make that possible.
We work with our partner universities to offer courses ranging from foundation programmes to postgraduate degrees covering subject areas including Accountancy, Business, Computing, Cyber, Digital Marketing, Events Management, Project Management and Web Development and delivered in city centre locations.
Equal Opportunities
At QA, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place.

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Your new role
We are seeking an experienced Property Compliance coordinator to join our team for a hybrid role based in the North West. You will be responsible for managing and implementing statutory testing obligations and planned preventative maintenance programs in line with the guidance and support of the Contract Manager.

Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and instruct contractors in the delivery of compliance programs within defined KPI's.
- Manage the CAFM system, the loading, and audit of certification in the Property Management System.
- Proactively manage and resolve any notices or communication with local authorities and/or statutory consultees in regard to statutory matters
- Actively support the issue of compliance certification for "Safe-Start" compliance on licensee changes providing confirmation for all agreement changes where required in a timely manner.
- Audit Compliance Contractors use of CAFM system, service delivery, and SLA's.
- Provide Compliance Contractor reviews and manage their performance on site and in their office location.
- Actively highlight and review changes in statutory compliance legislation providing impact guidance to consultees.
- Undertake cost validation audits on required testing remedials.


What you'll need to succeed
Skills and Experience:- Property Compliance experience - programming, management, legislation, and delivery
- Excel skills essential
- NEBOSH or IOSH qualified or working towards
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Organisational skills and ability to work to tight timescales
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective minute writing skills
- Knowledge of statutory legislation
- Flexibility to cover other department tasks or assist as required
- Excellent customer service
- Good team player
- Able to manage difficult conversations

What you'll get in return
Salary 32-37k
3 days a week hybrid working
Company benefits package - information to follow

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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Band E PEGA Quality Engineer - QE Automation & Frameworks
SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION: Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in an office site

About this opportunity

Would you like to be part of the next phase in our transformation? We're moving into streaming of data and cloud technologies, underpinned to meet data needs and our team. We're at the heart of our Group wide change.

Where does this role sit?

Core Platforms is on a journey to build the bank of the future and simplify our operational processes to help our customers with our Business Process Management, Customer Relationship Management (MS Dynamics) and API Integration technologies. We lead, prioritise, and deliver change across the Group by engaging with the Business areas, understanding their need, and delivering change in an agile way to safely deliver benefit for our Customers and Colleagues.

Here's how you'll make a difference:

As a Quality Engineer, you'll be making a real difference, as you'll blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team.

• Working with the Business, Development and UK onsite teams to drive solutions.

• Highly experienced in creating test frameworks to aid the testing of complex code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise

• Coaching other members in the team including junior engineer and partner resources

• Attending and contributing to Guilds

• Supporting wider delivery consideration e.g. risk management, planning & keeping documents current

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, constantly evolving business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

About You

You're able to find answers to questions and resolve problems, energised by learning new technologies and staying in step with industry changes. You're passionate about delivering high quality products and services, keeping a focus on our customers. You build strong business relationships and communicate in a clear, concise manner. You'll have excellent analytical skills and able to work methodically with a high level of attention to detail.

Skills/ experience we'd need to see

• Accomplished Test Automation Engineer helping to develop a robust and future-facing Automation & Frameworks.

• Highly experienced in creating test frameworks to aid the testing of complex code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise.

• Ability to analyse and evaluate the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develop and amend them as necessary (with guidance from senior colleagues). You might also understand how to supervise activities performed by a product development/specialist team.

• Be highly competent in one of the following languages: Javascript, Typescript or equivalent.

• Basic understanding of PEGA Architecture and supporting infrastructure

• Clear Communication - both written and verbal, familiar with communicating with business partners.

• Great teammate with good collaboration skills, with a willingness to improve your knowledge and experience.

• Growth Mindset - keen desire to lean and develop further

We'd be delighted if you also have:

• Knowledge of PEGA applications frameworks like Customer Service Framework, CLM (Customer Lifecycle Manager)

• Have a deep understanding of Frameworks and at least one automation framework, such as Playwright (preferred), Cypress, Selenium.

• Containerisation experience e.g docker.

• CI/CD experience e.g Jenkins.

• Knowledge on other programming languages.

• Agile experience

• Experience of JIRA/Confluence

• Comfortable participating in workshops

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's exciting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey !

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Your new role
We are seeking an experienced Property Compliance coordinator to join our team for a hybrid role based in the North West. You will be responsible for managing and implementing statutory testing obligations and planned preventative maintenance programs in line with the guidance and support of the Contract Manager.

Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and instruct contractors in the delivery of compliance programs within defined KPI's.
- Manage the CAFM system, the loading, and audit of certification in the Property Management System.
- Proactively manage and resolve any notices or communication with local authorities and/or statutory consultees in regard to statutory matters
- Actively support the issue of compliance certification for "Safe-Start" compliance on licensee changes providing confirmation for all agreement changes where required in a timely manner.
- Audit Compliance Contractors use of CAFM system, service delivery, and SLA's.
- Provide Compliance Contractor reviews and manage their performance on site and in their office location.
- Actively highlight and review changes in statutory compliance legislation providing impact guidance to consultees.
- Undertake cost validation audits on required testing remedials.


What you'll need to succeed
Skills and Experience:- Property Compliance experience - programming, management, legislation, and delivery
- Excel skills essential
- NEBOSH or IOSH qualified or working towards
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Organisational skills and ability to work to tight timescales
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective minute writing skills
- Knowledge of statutory legislation
- Flexibility to cover other department tasks or assist as required
- Excellent customer service
- Good team player
- Able to manage difficult conversations

What you'll get in return
Salary 28-32k
3 days a week hybrid working
Company benefits package - information to follow

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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Web Developer
Manchester OR Birmingham OR London based
Homebased working with occasional travel

Being a senior member of the Digital Team, as a Web Developer, you will be responsible for enhancing the architecture and functionality of our existing WordPress websites, ensuring they are optimised for accessibility, performance, security, and scalability.
You will be key in supporting our SEO improvement plans by collaborating with the marketing team to implement best practices that drive organic traffic and improve overall site performance.
Additionally, you will support our efforts to refresh the design and functionality of our websites, ensuring they remain current with industry trends, while also supporting ongoing maintenance tasks alongside the Senior Web Manager.
What you'll do doing: (click through to see the full job description)
You will be responsible for improving existing features and developing new ones to enhance the user experience for visitors, ensuring that our websites meet their evolving needs and expectations.
Additionally, you will make strategic recommendations on new technologies and tools that can drive innovation across our digital platforms.
A focus on security and accessibility will be paramount as you ensure that all websites are secure and meet accessibility standards.
You will also support essential upgrades, manage regular backups, and oversee user management to maintain security and access control.

Bring your experience:
Significant experience in WordPress development with proven ability to build and maintain scalable, secure websites.
History of developing new features aimed at improving website functionality and user experience.
Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional teams-such as marketing, UX, and external agencies.
Hands-on experience improving performance and implementing security and accessibility enhancements.
A strong background in maintaining and upgrading websites, managing regular backups, and overseeing user management to ensure seamless site operations.
Experience managing databases, and handling version control tools like Git will be critical.
A strong command of front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and familiarity with modern front-end frameworks like React or Vue.js are advantageous.
Expertise in PHP, MySQL, and server-side development is crucial for maintaining and improving site architecture.
A thorough understanding of SEO best practices, including strategies to optimise performance and search engine rankings.

What we can give you: Naturally, we have company benefits and various perks for you, but career wise we have a wealth of experience to share and help you develop further.
You'll have the opportunity to work with our exciting, growing and commercial brand…… come join us!

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A little more about QA Higher Education: Students preparing for undergraduate study. Working professionals looking to specialise in their field. Career changers. Everyone should be given access to outstanding higher education and our aim at QA Higher Education is to make that possible.
We work with our partner universities to offer courses ranging from foundation programmes to postgraduate degrees covering subject areas including Accountancy, Business, Computing, Cyber, Digital Marketing, Events Management, Project Management and Web Development and delivered in city centre locations.
Equal Opportunities At QA Higher Education, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place.

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Control Design & Optimisation - Unsecured Consumer Lending

SALARY: From £80,206

LOCATION(S): Chester, Cardiff, Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking senior manager to join the Consumer Lending Chief Controls Office. In this role, you will:

• Lead key initiatives to improve our non-financial control environment.
• Embed control by design and advance control automation within Consumer Lending.
• Support Consumer Lending in identifying opportunities to simplify, optimise, and automate controls using innovative technology.
• Support Consumer Lending in achieving strategic goals and delivering faster, more efficient services for our customers.

We are committed to building a high-performing team where each colleague is valued, supported, and empowered to become an expert in their field. Our goal is to ensure every team member understands their role within the broader Group strategy, contributing to the safe and effective management of non-financial risk in Consumer Lending.

About us

As the Group embarks on one of the UK's most significant financial services transformations, our internal risk transformation focused on instilling a robust risk and control culture has never been more crucial. We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

• Leadership: Ability to inspire and lead a team towards achieving strategic goals.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey complex ideas clearly.
• Strategic Thinking: Capability to think ahead and plan for future control needs and improvements.
• Problem-Solving: Aptitude for identifying issues and developing effective solutions.
• Collaboration: Working effectively with other areas and stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Being flexible and open to change, especially in a challenging environment.

It would also be great if you have:

• Risk and Control Management: Robust understanding of the Risk and Control Management Framework with practical control management knowledge and experience.
• End to End Risk and Control mapping - Delivering prescribed outcomes by working with established control design, mapping, monitoring and testing approaches.
• Control by Design (CbD) - An understanding of the Control by Design Methodology.
• Platform Change Framework (PCF) - Knowledge of PCF and how change is delivered within the Group.
• RCSA - Experience using the RCSA system and working with risk and control owner teams.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

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Lecturer in Computing
QA Higher Education, Full Time Role
Face2Face LOCATION Manchester City Centre Campus
Are you a Higher Education Lecturer in Computing looking for a permanent role within a dynamic organisation, where you can be proud and feel rewarded watching our students succeed?
We have an exciting opportunity to be part of our growing and expanding campus. We are student centric and very passionate about our contribution to our students' future ………come join us!
Your focus: As Lecturer, you will be responsible for our students' progression and academic achievement up to level 7. Planning, preparing, teaching modules both online and in the classroom using our innovative delivery methods and cutting-edge curriculum. You will provide guidance and support to our students with your knowledge and expertise, powering each student's potential.
Bring your experience: Applicants should have suitable and relative experience in teaching general programming (e.g., Python) and with at least one speciality such as Cloud Computing or Web Development or Mobile Development or Networking or IOT or Data Science or Big Data or DBMS or Relational Programming or Artificial Intelligence or Knowledge Engineering or Deep Learning or Information Systems. Must hold a Masters degree or higher in Computer Science/IT or related subject areas. Experience teaching in higher education (e.g., levels 4 to 7) is required. A teaching qualification and HEA membership would be distinct advantages.
What we can give you:
Access to innovative delivery methods, and exciting course material.
Chance to work with like-minded educational enthusiasts; able to share and learn delivery best practice and industry leading knowledge.
Receive specialist coaching and support from your education leaders.
A little more about QA:
Students preparing for undergraduate study. Working professionals looking to specialise in their field. Career changers. Everyone should be given access to outstanding higher education and our aim at QA is to make that possible.
We work with our partner universities to offer courses ranging from foundation programmes to postgraduate degrees covering subject areas including Accountancy, Business, Computing, Cyber, Digital Marketing, Events Management, Project Management and Web Development and delivered in city centre locations.

Equal Opportunities
At QA, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place.

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Are you a versatile project professional with experience in undertaking a range of assurance activities across large and complex projects? Are you seeking a new opportunity to work across a diverse multi-billion Portfolio of projects, including new transport infrastructure across Greater Manchester? If so, we have the role for you.

Your Role

You will lead the provision of an effective Assurance service providing independent assurance opinion to the Executive and Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Managing a small team to develop and deliver a range of assurance activities to support successful delivery of TfGM Business Plan & Greater Manchester Strategy priorities. Day to day this will include developing & agreeing assurance plans, leading Gateway reviews, supporting team delivery and development and robust assurance reporting.

For more info see job profile below

Who are we?

Your role will sit within the Audit, Risk and Assurance team and reports into the Head of Risk and Assurance. We are a small supportive team that is great to work in, accredited as 2 star in our recent Best Companies staff survey. You will work with a range of colleagues at all levels across TfGM, GMCA and local authorities.

Your work will make a real difference to support the successful delivery of a complex and technically diverse portfolio of capital and revenue projects. This exciting portfolio includes cycling and walking infrastructure; new interchanges; light and heavy rail; bus route enhancements; bus franchising; new and enhanced highways, digital infrastructure; IS enabling technology and business change.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

We’re looking for a relevant qualified project professional, with demonstrable experience and knowledge of undertaking assurance activities. You will be highly motivated and have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to persuade and influence others at all levels. Experience is required in leading, motivating and supporting staff progression.

What we can offer you

This is a permanent position in a well-established team, with a salary of £56,361 - £63,438 per annum depending on skills and experience

You will be working closely with a range of specialists from different areas and organisations, with the varied workload helping you to further develop your skills, experience and knowledge. This is a busy and exciting time for Greater Manchester, with transport playing a vital role in supporting and facilitating financially and environmentally sustainable growth and prosperity in the UK’s largest regional economy outside London. You will be able to play your important part in this journey.

Our benefits include:

· 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)

· Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance

· Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary

· Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions

· Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role

· We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required

What's next?

To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Lecturer in Computing
QA Higher Education, Full Time Role
Face2Face LOCATION Manchester
Are you a Higher Education Lecturer in Computing looking for a permanent role within a dynamic organisation, where you can be proud and feel rewarded watching our students succeed?
We have an exciting opportunity to be part of our growing and expanding campus. We are student centric and very passionate about our contribution to our students' future ………come join us!
Your focus: As Lecturer, you will be responsible for our students' progression and academic achievement up to level 7 (postgraduate). Planning, preparing, teaching modules both online and in the classroom using our innovative delivery methods and cutting-edge curriculum. You will provide guidance and support to our students with your knowledge and expertise, powering each student's potential.
Bring your experience: Applicants should have suitable and relative experience in teaching general programming (e.g., Python) and with at least one speciality such as Cloud Computing or Web Development or Mobile Development or HCI/UX Networking or IOT or Cyber Security or Data Science or Big Data or DBMS or Relational Programming or Artificial Intelligence or Knowledge Engineering or Deep Learning or Information Systems. Must hold a Masters degree or higher in Computer Science/IT or related subject areas. A teaching qualification and HEA membership would be distinct advantageous.
Significant experience in face-to-face teaching of higher education students in classes of varying sizes within a subject area taught by the faculty is required.
Ability to demonstrate hands-on technical competencies is essential.

What we can give you:
Access to innovative delivery methods, and exciting course material.
Chance to work with like-minded educational enthusiasts; able to share and learn delivery best practice and industry leading knowledge.
Receive specialist coaching and support from your education leaders.
A little more about QA:
Students preparing for undergraduate study. Working professionals looking to specialise in their field. Career changers. Everyone should be given access to outstanding higher education and our aim at QA is to make that possible.
We work with our partner universities to offer courses ranging from foundation programmes to postgraduate degrees covering subject areas including Accountancy, Business, Computing, Cyber, Digital Marketing, Events Management, Project Management and Web Development and delivered in city centre locations.


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Equal Opportunities
At QA, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place.

About the role

We have an excellent opportunity available for a qualified MOT Tester to join our team at Haverfordwest.

You will join our team of vehicle technicians and be responsible for the maintenance and repair work of motor vehicles. You will also ensure that you deliver an outstanding customer experience.

Each of our dealerships boasts state-of-the-art facilities, equipment, and technology in workshops, which are safe, friendly and clean.

About you

You must be a qualified Vehicle Technician with a formal qualification in Automotive City & Guilds/NVQ (or equivalent qualification).

Ideally, you will have the ability to work within given timescales and the ability to tackle all aspects of vehicle repairs and servicing. Diagnostic skills and experience in problem-solving are not essential but are desirable.

Why Day's Motor Group?

Since its inception in 1926 Day's continues to be a family run business that has been at the forefront of change and innovation receiving many awards from both the manufacturers and other external bodies.

Undoubtedly the commitment and enthusiasm displayed by all our staff has contributed significantly to our success. Our focus for the future is to maintain this culture of continuous development to the benefit of our customers, our company, and our employees.

As an Investor in People since 1995, we are passionate about continuing to build an environment where everyone feels valued, appreciated, and able to reach their full potential.

We believe that there is strength in diversity, and to further this we acknowledge that equality and inclusion are fundamental aspects of human life and a necessity for general wellbeing. At Day's we work continually to ensure that all our premises are welcoming and safe for everyone to be able to be their true self, and that we interact respectfully and collaboratively by showing that we care.

Employee benefits:

• Competitive salary
• 6.2 weeks annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays, based on contracted hours (Equivalent to 31 days)
• Contributory pension scheme *
• Life Assurance (death in service) *
• Staff discounts (vehicles, parts, servicing, vehicle hire, finance)
• Friends and Family discounted leasing
• Free on-site parking
• Cycle to work schemes
• Free and confidential access to BEN, employee assistance helpline available 24/7.
• Development opportunities within Days Motor Group

* Eligibility after qualifying period of continuous service

Without exception, we warmly welcome applications from people from all walks of life, who have the required skills and attributes. Should you need any assistance in relation to any aspect of our recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact us at