Total 4 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Paisley, PA1 1UJ

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Renfrewshire Council operates a wide range of services to maintain the tree and woodland landscape across the area. We are using new technologies and new ways of working to deliver better services and better value.

The Neighbourhood Services team is part of the Council’s wider Environment, Housing and Infrastructure team and employs over 120 people operating 50 specialist vehicles maintaining the built and natural environment in the area. This includes ground maintenance, street sweeping, maintaining road verges, cemetery operations, arboricultural, sports pitches and more.

This role will involve conducting both reactive and proactive tree inspections in order to prescribe appropriate work recommendations to effectively mitigate foreseeable risks. This will involve working with a wide range of internal and external customers and front-line service managers to deliver an effective tree management service.

You will be part of a specialist team that is committed to delivering arboricultural services to the residents, communities and businesses of Renfrewshire and your day-to-day work will improve the environment that people live and work in.

Lantra Professional Tree Inspection certification, Evidence of continuing, relevant, professional development, Relevant experience of a wide range of tree inspection and management activities and Wide knowledge of tree species, fungi and disease identification are essential.

Wide knowledge of legislations and British Standards relating to Arboriculture and Silviculture, knowledge of IT programmes, effective interpersonal, problem solving, organisational, communication skills and full UK driving Licence are also essential.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

We are looking for an experienced mechanic with an MOT Tester qualification to join our small team.
This position entails MOT Testing, associated repairs and servicing to a wide range of vehicles including class 7 vehicles. You will also be expected to communicate with customers and work well within a small team.
As a small business, we work in a fast paced environment. We also deal with a lot of trade and commercial customers.
Hours of work are Monday - Friday 8.00am - 5.30pm.
This position will be on a 3 month trial basis to ensure both parties are satisfied.

School of Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences
Paisley Campus

Information and Quality Officer – REQ000005
Salary: Grade 5 £32,982- £39,348 per annum
Full time: 35 hours per week
Permanent

THE POST – Information and Quality Officer
The University of West of Scotland is recruiting for an Information and Quality Officer to join the School of Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences. The post holder will be a key contributor to the School’s Service Delivery Team in coordinating Accreditations, Programme Approvals and Institute Led Reviews. Lead and manage the process of student engagement in relation to UKVI attendance and monitoring. Monitor student recruitment targets, manage the coordination of External Examiners and produce high level management information across all areas.


As the Information and Quality Officer your responsibilities will include:

• Leading, managing and developing designated colleagues within the School’s Service Delivery Team, ensuring effective and efficient staff deployment to meet the evolving needs of the School.
• Leading the coordination of the External Examiner appointment process, identifying gaps in provision and information. Maintain cross-School External Examiner module mapping documentation.
• Providing analysis of data across the student journey and construction of reports with recommendations based upon the data and other findings to feed into decision making, operational planning and strategy formulation processes within the School.
• Working with the School Business Manager to set, monitor and report on recruitment targets against actuals and provide baseline intake data and reports for tracking across years.
• Working closely with the Education and Quality Officer to ensure information flows are timely and accurate to support the smooth running of operational academic/student processes.

The successful candidate should have the following:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Evidence of progressing a broad range of activities within professional guidelines and following policies and processes in a high quality and timely manner.
• Effectively organise and prioritise own work and preferably others in the team, in order to produce work to a high standard to required deadlines.
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills including excellent report writing skills within an educational environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrable experience of collating, manipulating and presenting complex data.


ABOUT US

University of the West of Scotland is one of Scotland’s largest and most dynamic modern universities. Our reach across the country, together with our London campus, means that UWS is a significant force in global knowledge creation, innovation, and a leading provider of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree education. Our degrees provide students with a transformational experience; equipping them with highly sought-after graduate skills that set them up for global success in world-leading sectors, industries and businesses.
With cutting-edge courses, modern pedagogy and practical knowledge, we enable our students and staff to experience the joy of learning, teaching, research and innovation, and apply their knowledge for the benefit of others.
UWS is officially ranked by Times Higher Education in the top 200 universities worldwide under 50 years old (2023 Young University Rankings).


Our professional services teams are the backbone of UWS, providing robust and innovative solutions to support the vast range of work across learning and teaching, and research and innovation. You will join a supportive and dedicated team, playing a key role in a range of work that will help drive forward our ambition to deliver world-leading research, and graduates who will design, shape and build a new future.


We offer our staff a caring and supportive environment, across five campuses, and a competitive benefits package which includes:

• 24 days of annual leave, plus a further 12 days for public/university holidays
• An additional days leave on your birthday
• 19.3% employer’s pension contribution, including death in service benefits on joining the pension scheme
• A flexible approach to working pattern and work-life balance
• Employee discount scheme across 3,500 retailers
• Fitness facilities across our campuses
• Free gym membership
• Access to a range of health and wellbeing resources, including occupational health, physiotherapy and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Professional, career and research development opportunities.


Closing Date: Friday 17th December 2023

Interview Date: Wednesday 24th January 2024

The University reserves the right to shorten/extend the closing date of any position where a high/low volume of suitable applications are received. Therefore, if you are interested in this role, an early application would be encouraged.

UWS is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups.
UWS is a “Disability Confident” employer.
University of the West of Scotland is a registered Scottish charity, no. SC002520.

About the Role

Base Location: Aldershot, Basingstoke, Chichester, Petersfield & Portsmouth.

Salary: £26,609 - £30,472 + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.

You will have responsibility for the routine safety and integrity inspections covering all voltages associated with the Distribution Network. You will be expected to develop your knowledge of the risks associated with substation sites, the overhead network and their associated plant and equipment and escalate any urgent issues to be addressed immediately. Whilst carrying out your tasks in a variety of conditions in all weathers, you will conduct inspections on substations and the overhead network as well as clearance activities which will include High Risk Site activities. You will be expected to record all required information as per current processes accurately to ensure compliance and meet all regulator and legislative standards. As an ambassador for SSEN you are expected to maintain and improve proactively, exceptional customer relations with landowners and members of the public.

- Identifies damaged plant/equipment and unsafe situations and escalates to customer contact centre and manager.

- Carries out comprehensive risk assessments.

- Communicates well with customers, resolves issues, and escalates compliments or complaints.

- Awareness of Statutory, regulatory and licence requirements including ESQCR, industry wide Code of Practice as well as engineering practices.

- Ability to deliver within challenging timescales, the ability to effectively prioritise, plan and organise and balance immediate and longer term business priorities.

What do I need?

Consider what actually matters to do this role - skills, past experience, behaviours, etc and limit this to the top 5 essential requirements. Please consider how diversity of thought, actions and approach could bring added productivity to your business.

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

- Excellent planning and organisational skills.

- IT skills to enable the recording and updating of all required data.

- Working knowledge of ESQCR requirements.

- Ability to safely access remote equipment positioned over rough ground and hillsides.

- Flexibility to work away from home.

About our Business

SSEN Distribution powers 3.9 million homes and businesses in communities across central southern England and the north of Scotland. Our team of more than 4,200 highly skilled people keep customers connected to a safe and reliable supply of electricity whilst developing the flexible networks that are vital for the future. We power communities to thrive today and create a net zero tomorrow. Why not join us and help power change, we're looking for great people who love working with others to achieve great results. You'll be empowered to make the right decisions for our customers and have the space to take accountability for the work you do. Youll be working as part of a bigger team, enabling net zero, so team work will be essential. As a part of our business, you become part of something bigger - an established company with a reputation for looking after our people, offering secure and rewarding roles where safety is our number one priority.

What's in it for you?

We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments you need during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for 'Inclusion & Diversity at SSE' to find out more.

What happens now?

All applications should be made online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working flexibly requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact Robert on 01738 341105.

Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.