Total 114 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 1AA

79281 - Quality Engineer

This Quality Engineer will report to the Quality and Assurance Manager and will work within Governance, Risk, Compliance & Quality with UKPN Services based in our Chatham/South East office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £51,245, plus car and a bonus of 3%

Close Date:.19/11/2024

JOB PURPOSE:

You will provide competent quality management advice to promote compliance to ISO 9001: 2015 in the review, audit, certification, induction and management of procedures and processes in electrical infrastructure construction projects.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Provide Quality Management advice about ISO 9001: 2015 to other advisors, managers, employees, contractors and clients, both in the tendering and construction phases. Aim to maintain UK Power Networks Services' quality management system to ensure it can design, build, finance, operate and maintain primary electrical infrastructure for its clients.

2. Contribute to the review of existing and the development of new procedures/processes. Procedures include those from central UK Power Networks group and those which are UK Power Networks Services' project/contract specific. There will also be involvement in the communication, implementation and monitoring within the directorate;

3. Monitor compliance with ISO 9001: 2015, procedures, legal and moral obligations, and national, international and client standards. Plan project audits against agreed level 2, 3 and 4 schedules. Will undertake quality management system audits, produce audit reports and ensure findings are resolved promptly.

4. Assist and offer guidance to Project Managers in reviewing quality related project documents and requirements. Develop appropriate quality management system inductions, training and communication materials for the project team and subcontractors. Gather lessons learnt and maintains the project cost of poor quality process. Provide Project Managers with quality related updates for inclusion in monthly reports. Support any quality management system incident investigations.

5. Provide a monitoring function to ensure that suppliers, subcontractors and the services they provide exceed our quality management system expectations. This may include conducting external audits and undertaking random performance inspections of field teams to identify issues requiring improvement and highlighting good performance.

6. Monitor site certification of materials and equipment, including tool calibration, to ensure compliance with client and project requirements. To maintain associated project records to compile final data book documentation.

7. Facilitate third-party audits of UK Power Networks Services by external certification bodies. Champion quality management system processes in the business to ensure certification requirements are maintained.

NATURE AND SCOPE:

UK Power Networks group is owned by the Cheung Kong Group who are one of the largest investors in the UK and employ over 300,000 people in 52 countries. UK Power Networks owns and maintains electricity cables and lines across London, the South East and East of England and employs over 6000 people. UK Power Networks Services are the unregulated commercial arm of this business.

UK Power Networks Services are a national provider of power distribution and distributed energy solutions which improves customers' existing electrical assets and integrates new technologies to deliver improved performance and commercial benefits. Working in the transport, defence, manufacturing and industrial, public and nuclear sectors the business is growing and needs accomplished individuals to be part of this exciting change.

You will report to the Quality and Assurance Manager and be a member of the UK Power Networks Services Quality and Assurance team.

You will visit UKPN Services and client offices and project sites.

You will work with management across all directorates. You will have also represent us at operational/project level with external partners.

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• HNC (minimum requirement) qualification in a discipline such as Quality Management, Construction, Project Management or Technical/Engineering or equivalent.
• As a minimum be a Practitioner member of the Chartered Quality Institute with an aspiration to gain Chartered status, which we will support;
• Have quality management system experience gained in the construction industry (manufacturing based or other experience would not be suitable);
• Be a trained QMS Auditor/Internal QMS Auditor with experience in auditing to ISO 9001: 2015;
• Have experience of root cause analysis
• Attain several client access passes and licenses that may be required to work within UK industries such as airports, defence, nuclear, rail and underground rail;
• Hold a valid UK driving licence

Desirable

• Flexible in your approach to work and be prioritise as directed by the Quality and Assurance Manager and Project Manager on assigned projects or contracts;
• Audit to ISO 14001: 2015 and ISO 45001: 2018 requirements would be desirable;
• Knowledge of ISO 55001: 2014, ISO 44001: 2017, ISO 19650-1: 2018, ISO 19650-2: 2018, ISO 19650-3: 2020 and ISO 19650-5: 2020 would be advantageous;
• Be a team player and with other staff and clients within the business;
• Have excellent communication, presentation, planning and decision making skills at all seniority levels;
• Can work with IT software packages such as Microsoft office;

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


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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well-established company renowned in the electrical testing and measurement industry. Our client is currently seeking an Apprentice Software Tester based on their customer site in Dover (Kent) This is a full-time, temporary role for 16 months. Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week with early finish on Fridays, to start ASAP. The role is paying £20,000 to £22,000 per annum depending on experience.

Core purpose:

To Design, Develop and author verification to verify the requirements of the system/product.

Support Troubleshooting and Diagnosis for software and hardware function.

The Apprentice Software Tester will support in improving the quality of capability development as well as speed up the development cycle.

Role summary:

Verification is a very important part of the development lifecycle. This is not an end of development activity but important to be developed inline with the requirement\design development.

The Apprentice Software Tester will work closely with Systems, Hardware and Embedded Software to generate the verification of the system being developed.

They will learn how to manage verification in an efficient manner. Learning how to read requirements and generate automated verification that gives targeted coverage.

They will also learn how to challenge requirements for testability and support in generation of SMART requirements to manage this.

To support verification, they will learn how to program in languages like C\C++ and Matlab\Simullink.

Primary objectives:

• Generate the verification of the system function(s)
• For requirements and design, Support
• Validation (are they correct and testable) and
• Verification (have they been implemented correctly)
• Contribute to the verification frameworks to enable efficient automated verification.

Analysing and enhancing efficiency, stability and scalability of system resources.

Main Responsibilities

• Creation of verification plans
• Support maximising automated verification.
• Running and recording of tests, proving compliance of system to requirements.
• Maximise verification re-use, both intra project and where applicable cross project.
• Supporting Verification across the levels of the program, Unit test, SW functional test, Hardware in the Loop, Product Verification, Production Test.
• Support packaging of tests with reuse functions\capabilities.
• Generate Verification to support issue finding and resolution.
• Work closely with the development team.
• Working in the development of cutting-edge features and platforms as well as regression work with existing products.
• Assist the development team with requirements validation and design for testability analysis.
• Support Generation of Estimate Time to complete verification activities.

Experience, Skill & Knowledge required

Technical Skills

• Suitable GSCE and A levels to support STEM\technical background.
• Interest in programming languages
• Some understanding of electronics
• Basic idea of test-driven development.
• Team player
• Willing to learn
• Professional Approach

Soft Skills

• Organised and able to work to tight deadlines - good time management.
• Flexible and proactive in approach to the role - positive attitude essential.
• Ability to work on own initiative and pickup things quickly.
• Great communication skills.
• Team player.
• Problem solving and analytical skills performance blockages.
• PC literate - Microsoft and Windows applications

Learning Support Specialist
Home Based
Competitive salary and benefits

The role
In this role you will offer guidance and support to neurodiverse or disabled learners on our programmes to enable them to achieve their aspirations and goals. You will deliver effective teaching, learning and support to learners for qualifications and their individual needs

The responsibilities

• Create individual support plans tailored to learner's individual needs, considering the results of initial & diagnostic assessments.
• Motivate, enable and drive learners to achieve their goals through outstanding teaching and learning
• Deliver learning and evidence progression to meet the targets set for the learner
• Deliver engaging and creative learning to meet the needs of the learner
• Provide continuous and effective Information, Advice & Guidance to learners
• Provide pastoral support to learners as required to aid engagement & achievement of their goals
• Deliver and facilitate teaching, learning and support that encourages accelerated and autonomous learning
• Support the learning process through the development of learning resources.
• Engage and coach the learner's Employer/Mentor to provide adequate support and guidance
• Complete detailed documentation to evidence the need for Learning Support Funding
• Work collaboratively with and provide accurate updates to the appropriate delivery colleagues and support the timely achievement of the qualification
• Monitor learner's welfare, health and safety in the workplace upskilling learner's knowledge regarding
• Safeguarding, British Values, Prevent and Equality & Diversity

Your experience and skills

• Experience of and a proven track record of working with SEND learners
• Proven track record of consistently exceeding targets
• Knowledge and/or experience in delivering Safeguarding

Your qualifications

• Educated at degree level or equivalent experience
• Teaching qualification preferred but not essential

About QA:
At QA, we believe the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at pace and scale. As the largest tech training company in the UK and the fastest-growing in the US, we partner with 96% of the FTSE and most of the Fortune 500. We have served over 4,000 customers and 1+ million learners since 1985.

We believe skills alone aren't enough, but need to be applied back to the business in order to effect change. We do this through tailored learning programmes that connect learning across an organisation's siloes, create continuity for learners, and feature collaborative, cohort-based modalities to apply skills at pace and at scale. Our unique end-to-end learning solution draws from deep expertise across apprenticeships and instructor-led training, and self-paced learning.

QA is headquartered in London and New York.
Learn more at QA.com

Down time

Taking time for ourselves is so important these days which is why we dedicate some of our benefits to support your health & wellbeing. These include: 27 days holiday each year, holiday buying scheme, Medicash plan, Gympass, Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, and 2 days per year charity leave.

How we'll help with finance matters

In addition to pension, group income protection and life assurance, QA are offering you an annual pay review, access to our employee discounts benefit hub with hundreds of deals and savings on goods and experiences, season ticket loan, tech scheme and an employee referral scheme.

Personal growth

Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!
You'll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you'll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics. Or perhaps you'd like to enrol on a Degree or Masters programme to enhance your skillset or learn new things.

Safeguarding Statement
QA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults with care and support needs. We hold the expectation that all staff share this commitment in creating a safe and inclusive environment and as an organization, we comply with relevant legislation and best practices in safeguarding and safe recruitment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on successful applicants including:

• an enhanced disclosure check
• Child Barring list check
• qualification checks
• online checks
• medical fitness
• identity and right to work

All applicants will be required to provide two references covering the previous three years and a Criminal Declaration form must be completed and returned ahead of interview.


If this is what you're looking for, here are the next steps:
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SALES ENGINEER
London/Hybrid
Competitive salary base + Commission

Our sales team shares our business success story with organisation's around the world and highlights the added value we give to align Sales and Marketing.

As a Sales Engineer at QA, you will play an essential role within the business and hugely impact its growth. Reporting directly into the Director of Sales Enablement and Solutions, you will be providing world-class pre-sales support for our enterprise sales team.

Your Responsibilities

• Enthusiastically lead prospective customers to the expected business outcomes of our platform.
• Deliver outstanding product demonstrations through powerful storytelling and articulation of how our software provides value to customers
• Promote our platform at events such as AWS reinvent, Microsoft Ignite, etc.
• Continuously strive for improvement in all skill areas and maintain up-to-date knowledge regarding our solution as well as industry trends and technologies.
• Work closely with sales partners to qualify, drive opportunities and determine sales motions within accounts.
• Collaborate with multiple internal teams such as product management, engineering, customer success and marketing.
• Be passionate about sales engineering and working with customers.

About you

• Experience with selling and delivering SaaS products to enterprise operations teams
• Experience of working with SALESFORCE combined with AWS, GCP or MS Azure
• Ability to work directly with customers with a strong commitment to their success
• Strong presentation skills, including live product demos and technical pitches
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including a dynamic and engaging presentation style that inspires confidence
• Open-minded, positive attitude, and the ability to work with a sense of urgency
• Ability to travel within the local Region

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary with a quarterly MBOs
• Budget for professional development
• 5 weeks paid vacation per year, with the option to purchase a sixth week
• Great company culture and work environment
• Highly skilled teammates and lots of opportunities for growth and development

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
Down time

Taking time for ourselves is so important these days which is why we dedicate some of our benefits to support your health & wellbeing. These include: 27 days holiday each year, holiday buying scheme, Medicash plan, Gympass, Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, and 2 days per year charity leave.

Personal growth

Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!
You'll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you'll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics.

Our people

We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual preference, or if you are disabled or a carer, we welcome you and the alternative perspectives you bring to our diverse family.

We're proud of the progress we've achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity - our rankings on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List are a testament to this.


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Your new company
A successful and innovative British manufacturer who are dominating their chosen sector. They design and manufacture class-leading products that are well loved by their customers. This is a great time to join the business and an opportunity to continue the development of internal systems across Quality and Regulatory Compliance that will play a key part in their ongoing development.

Your new role
You will be responsible for Product Compliance and Quality, including Quality Assurance (collaborating with Suppliers to ensure pre-shipment quality), Quality Control (ownership of quality related issues and implementing corrective action plans), and Regulatory Compliance in various sales territories. You will also be a point of escalation for Customer Service and Warranty Support, and play a key part in New Product Development supporting Product and Design teams as they bring new and improved products through testing and to market.

What you'll need to succeed
Formal Qualifications in Quality Management are useful but not essential. Most important is a demonstrable track record of success within a similar role, and your CV will contain relevant achievements. You will have experience working within a manufacturing business (consumer products is an advantage), supporting overall business objectives by driving improvements in Quality and Compliance. You will enjoy solving problems, and be process focused, able to use metrics to understand performance across relevant business functions, and proactively drive changes that will enable continuous improvement of those metrics. You will also have the ambition to grow your team and play a key leadership role within this rapidly expanding company.

What you'll get in return
Competitive salary (circa £60k), plus bonus and benefits. Significant opportunities for ongoing progression within this fast growth business. Hybrid working pattern (typically onsite 3 days a week).

What you need to do now
All candidates will need to hold existing Right to Work in the UK.
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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Job Title: Quality Manager Location: Sidcup, KentSalary: £55-60kHours: 8:30am - 5pm M-TH, 8:30am - 2pm Fri

Your new company
Our client, who is a global leader in manufacturing and supplying laboratory, pharmaceutical, and hospital autoclaves, seeks a Quality Manager to oversee their UK-based manufacturing operations. With over 100 years of experience, they're committed to delivering high-quality sterilisation equipment that meets the rigorous standards of modern professionals.
Your new role
In this role, you'll oversee quality management systems and ensure compliance with industry standards. This includes adherence to UKAS 17025, ISO 9001, and PED 2014/68/EU.
Quality Manager Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with design personnel to ensure products meet legal and safety standards.
• Working with the Service Manager to ensure UKAS-accredited services adhere to requirements and processes.
• Liaising and planning third party approval of products.
• Communicating quality standard concerns to senior management.
• Communication of quality and compliance issues with all departments
• Developing quality control processes.
• Organising and carrying out internal audits of the compliance programs and management systems of the company.
• Coordinating and preparing for external audits.
• Generating quality standards statistics reports.
• Rejecting products that fail quality standards.
• Collaborating with customers to collect product feedback.

The role also includes, but is not limited to:

• Manage infrastructure and services for effective business operations, including IT support, communications, and utilities.
• Managing a UKAS-accredited laboratory, including Calibration Manager.
• Overseeing statutory and regulatory compliance with Health and Safety requirements.

What you'll need to succeed
Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in a Quality Assurance management role within a manufacturing environment.
• In-depth knowledge of quality assurance procedures, health, and safety
• Experience with ISO 9001,
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional development.
• Supportive and collaborative work environment.

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.

New Appointments Group are excited to be working with a manufacturing company who are looking for an Import/Export Compliance Analyst on a 6 month temporary basis.

This role is mostly remote however candidates are expected to travel between sites in Daventry, Darlington or Huddersfield. (You will be on site every 2-3 weeks for projects)

Import/export experience is required or alternatively knowledge of supply chain such as transport, logistics or shipping. Advanced Excel knowledge is essential, as the data will be analysed via through extensive spreadsheets.

Manage and maintain controlled processes including: tariff code classification, record keeping, country of origin and preferential trade calculations.

Research and monitor import/export activity for all business units, local laws and procedures; gather, enter, and manages import/export data, prepares summaries for review

Gather all necessary documentation for import/export licenses; drafts applications for licenses and registrations; submits applications, including those with applicable benefits, upon review by Supervisor and monitors approval process with appropriate governmental contacts

Builds and maintains relationships with appropriate governmental organisations in the country of assignment

Manages brokers to ensure appropriate supporting documentation and consistent compliance with import/export regulations exists

Analyse import/export activities to ensure the business does not exceed limits or violate any restrictions on import/export activities

Compile data and updates metrics as requested

Analyse data and draw conclusions

Interact with Customs, Customs brokers and Customs service providers

Executes team processes as directed and provides input into process improvements related to immediate area of influence.

About you:

Knowledge of Trade Application

Drives results

Customer focused

Action orientated

This role pays £15.39ph and is Monday to Friday, 37.5hrs a week.

New Appointments Group, Expertly Matching Employers and Jobseekers since 1975. Committed to diversity, equality and opportunity for all. Twitter: @nagforjobs

Your new company
An upper-tier local authority for a non-metropolitan county in England. Established in 1889, it provides various services such as social care, education support, highways and transport, public health, waste disposal, and economic development.

Your new role
Purpose:

• To inspect, assess and report upon the condition of roadside and other trees, ascertain the ownership of trees on private land and provide technical information for the serving of notices to remedy defects. To undertake specific inspections to gather information on the progression of Ash die-back.
• To maintain and update computerised tree inventories and inspection records, issue work instructions to contractors where required, and carry out a range of other forestry and arboricultural related tasks.
• Must be flexible in taking on additional tasks, willing to offer help to staff in other groups, and treat co-operation and support for colleagues as a top priority.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Carry out regular inspections trees adjacent to the highway and on other sites to identify defects which could be hazardous to the public or property, and locate their positions on plans.
• Ascertain the ownership of any trees with defects.
• Prepare reports and associated plans on defective trees so that notices to remedy defects can be sent out.
• Check after appropriate interval whether or not remedial works have been carried out and report back.
• Maintain and update records of tree inspections.
• Create, maintain and update inspection records and inventories of trees in the ownership of the organisation.
• When required, carry out specific inspections of sites to monitor the progression of Ash Die-back and when appropriate, make recommendations on management requirements.
• Prepare reports on the findings of such inspections.
• Input, maintain and extract computer database information.
• When required, issue work instructions to contractors to carry out work identified, including supervision and inspection of work on completion.
• Keep up-to-date with the principles of forestry and arboricultural practice, including identification of tree and shrub species and associated diseases and disorders.
• Take telephone and other technical messages for all senior staff in their absence.
• Assist with the provision of the forestry and arboricultural service, as required.
• Assist in dealing with emergencies and planned events associated with sphere of work by telephone and/or personal attendance on site as required.
• Occasionally, this may include evenings, early mornings, weekends, Bank Holidays etc. (for which time off in lieu or overtime will be allowed).
• Such other duties as may be required relating to the function of the Department, as directed by the Manager/Forestry Team Leader.

What you'll need to succeed

• BTEC or equivalent Level 3 in Arboriculture, Level 4 desirable
• Experience in forestry/ arboriculture, including decision-making on tree health, structural safety, pathogens and appropriate preventative remedial work.
• Membership with the Arboricultural Association is desirable.
• Knowledge of identifying trees and shrubs and tree pathogens.
• Recognition of physiological tree defects, diseases and disorders.
• Knowledge of visual tree assessment
• Map reading skills
• Able to compose detailed reports appropriately levelled at the recipient
• Good communication - must be tactful and be able to deal sympathetically with the public, tree-owners, etc
• Able to work to time limits and to handle a number of activities at once.
• Physically fit - able to walk for sustained periods and for long distances often on uneven ground and in inclement weather
• Full driving licence required at all times
• Be domestically located so as to be capable of visiting all sites within the area without difficulty and within a reasonable response time
• Willingness to work when required (occasionally including evenings/early mornings/weekends/bank holidays etc.)

What you'll get in return

• £15 p/hour (Will progress to £16 once in post)
• Development of tree ID and disease/pathogen ID skills
• Develop your decision making skills

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 on your career.

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Job Title: Gas Inspector

Location: West London

Salary: £40,000 - £42,000 w/ Van and Fuel Card

Job Type: Permanent

Daniel Owen are currently working with a leading Gas company and are seeking a Gas Inspector to join them and assist across their contracts. You will be required to travel around the following postcodes: SW/W/HA/UB.

Gas Inspector Role:

• Oversee all daily activities for a selection of engineers and sub-contractors.
• This role will also require you to conduct individual site surveys in client's properties to ascertain the scope of works required to install or upgrade central heating systems in these dwellings.
• These surveys will enable the Installation department to complete planned work and hit required operational and customer service performance targets, Health and Safety, Quality and Environmental systems, company procedures, and meet legislation requirements.

Gas Inspector Requirements:

• Valid ACS & other relevant gas qualifications
• Full UK Driving Licence (less than 6 points)
• Experience within Social Housing desirable, but not essential
• Experience delivering high levels of customer service
• The ability to work with a diverse customer base

Gas Inspector Benefits:

• Additional earnings via ECO
• Overtime opportunities
• Salary exchange pension
• Employee assistance programme
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays, rising by one day with each full year of service (max five additional)
• Enhanced family leave (dependent on length of service)

If this role is of interest to you, please apply.

LON123

HRGO Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Quality Controller for their client based in the outskirts of Ashford.

This is a Permanent Opportunity.

Salary:

£30,000 - £32,000

Hours:

5 days a week

0800 - 1700

To assist the Technical Manager in maintaining food safety, quality and hygiene practices.

Summary of the role:

• Completion of technical information for internal and external reports
• Collect and prepare samples to sent for testing
• Provide site technical team with information about adherence to compliance against required standards
• Complete Audits
• To Identify and communicate any deviations from the standards using audit and inspection of premises, practices, processes, raw materials and finished products against specified standard.
• Conduct daily taste panels, record results and publish the results to wider teams

The Ideal Candidate:

• Minimum of Food Safety Level 3 and HACCP Level 2 Training
• Minimum of 3 years experience within the Food Manufacturing Industry
• Ability to work on own initiative but also a team
• Flexible and Reliable

They are looking for someone to start immediately, so please apply today!

HRGO Recruitment, Ashford Branch

79476 - Substation Inspector

This Substation Inspector will report to the field staff supervisor and will work within Network Operations based in our Central London, Covent Garden office. You will be a permanent employee in our UK Power Networks team.

You will attract a salary of £38,892 + benefits and a bonus of 3%.

If you are successful, you will need to undertake a medical and DBS reference check

Close Date:.20/10/2024

We also provide the following additional benefits

• Annual Leave

• Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)

• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme

• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Occupational Health support

• Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.

• Discounted access to sports and social clubs

• Employee Assistance Programme.

Main Job Purpose:

To work as part of a team or as a lone worker, in the London geographical area, carrying out the full range of responsibilities associated Inspections at voltages to 11kv.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Inspection & Non Intrusive Diagnostic Testing of all plant and apparatus associated with the Primary Distribution network.

• Fault location and repair of minor plant defects associated with the Distribution network.

• Ensure that all staff for which you is responsible work to the DSR and to demonstrate a safety culture

• Take Oil Samples for diagnostic testing from HV Plant.

• Use IT equipment

• Supervise Maintenance/Construction staff within their working party.

• To be prepared to assist other sections e.g. organisational changes, system emergencies etc as determined by your experience.

Nature & Scope

This position has been classified as a Specified Role and is subject to pre-appointment drug screening observing the UK Power Networks policy on Alcohol & Drugs".

The person undertaking this role will play an important role in the safe completion of the Inspection and Maintenance up to and including 11kv in the London Region. You may work at any location within the UK Power Networks area.

You will work either alone or as part of a team of Inspectors that report to an Inspection Supervisor and have the support of experienced Field Engineers.

Experience

The following skills and attributes are important to this role

• Basic Electrical Background

• Flexibility and able to work in a team environment

• Ability to problem solve in a practical way

• Able to work under pressure

• Must have a clean driving licence

Desirable

An understanding of Health & Safety and Environmental Legislation

Personal Skills

• Work efficiently and communicate effectively with other team members

• Have the enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills and techniques.

• Demonstrate a strong safety culture.

• Be flexible in their approach to work.

Project Manager
Remote
Permanent - 37.5 hrs per week

We are specialists in technology - providing a comprehensive suite of talent and training services helping individuals and companies to be winners in the digital revolution. Over 290,000 people learned with us last year!

We deliver services to over 5,000 corporate clients, representing a significant portion of the FTSE 250. We have leading practices in agile, cyber security, cloud and DevOps - as well as many other technology specialisms.

We specialise in the people side of technology transformation - our training programmes help businesses to upskill or reskill their existing employees and our talent services are used to identify, recruit and skill-up diverse technology talent - we deliver 70% of the UK's cloud training and are a Microsoft Gold delivery partner.

Your Role:
This purpose of this hands on, highly operational, client focused role is to work alongside the Senior Project Manager to scope, plan and manage the successful delivery of large and complex face to face, virtual and digital learning and engagement programmes

Working on behalf of one of QA's key clients you will be responsible for ensuring that your programme achieves its objectives within agreed timescales and budget whilst ensuring that quality measures are continually adhered to.

Responsibilities:

• Manage operational risk within sensible parameters of QA Project and QA Business needs.
• Working alongside the Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for the successful delivery of large complex learning and engagement programmes in line with the plan and budget.
• Work closely with client Stakeholders and Solution Architect to scope the objectives, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, assumptions, risks and quality acceptance criteria.
• Support programme specific resourcing through clear role(s) definition, recruitment and quality assurance.

Skills & Qualification:

• Project Management experience is essential due to the scale and complexity of the programmes
• Fully familiar with project lifecycle and methodologies and hold a Prince 2 Practitioner or similar industry recognised qualification
• Experience of complex scheduling
• Experience of resource management
• Experience of effectively managing or mitigating against risk
• Excellent document writing skills
• Stakeholder management at a senior level
• Our salaries are competitive and will be discussed as part of the selection process.

What's in it for me?

On top of this, receive QA's outstanding benefits package:

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 3 dedicated study days
• Access to 1500+ courses (worth up to £3K each!)
• Medicash - cashback for dentist/physio etc.
• Free virtual GP appointments
• 2 charity/volunteer days
• £500 referral scheme
• A superb Gymflex scheme (ask us about this!)
• Our own BenefitsHub to receive loads of discounts

Down time
Taking time for ourselves is so important these days which is why we dedicate some of our benefits to support your health & wellbeing. These include: 27 days holiday each year, holiday buying scheme, Medicash plan, Gympass, Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, and 2 days per year charity leave.

How we'll help with finance matters
In addition to pension, group income protection and life assurance, QA are offering you an annual pay review, access to our employee discounts benefit hub with hundreds of deals and savings on goods and experiences, season ticket loan, tech scheme and an employee referral scheme.

Personal growth
Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!

You'll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you'll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics. Or perhaps you'd like to enrol on a Degree or Masters programme to enhance your skillset or learn new things.


Our people
We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual preference, or if you are disabled or a carer, we welcome you and the alternative perspectives you bring to our diverse family. We're proud of the progress we've achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity - our rankings on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List are a testament to this.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. All applicants with a disability who fulfil the role criteria will be progressed to the next stage of the process. Please let us know what reasonable adjustment, if any, you require.

If this is what you're looking for, here are the next steps:

Hit the apply button and register on our QA website to fill out our quick and easy application form. If you'd like to hear more about the role you can email me: - happy to help!

Cloud Test/Exam Designer
Remote/Home Based UK
Full time, 37.5 hrs per week



Job purpose:
You will join QA as Assessment Specialist working within our Content team. Reporting to our Senior Assessments Manager, this person will play a pivotal role in ensuring our assessments remain the top in the industry.

You might be experienced in running your own blog in relation to one of or all of the CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES we mention?

You will have a strong technical expertise in the CLOUD Technologies of Azure, AWS and GCP.

• Experience of Containerisation, Kubernetes, GEN AI, Zero Day Threats, Test Lab design.

The role and what you will be doing:

• You will be ideally well versed in CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES including Azure, AWS, GCP etc and have an enthusiasm for commenting on or developing insights into new technical advancements and changes.
• Write clear, accurate, and relevant assessments for QA enterprise training, including but not limited to: certification preparation exams across multiple cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud.
• Write/create role-based skill assessments for a wide variety of current IT roles including Solution Architect, Software Developer, or DevOps Engineer.
• Create both pre and post assessments which are formative and summative exams to assess learner progress through a sequence of modular training resources.
• Coordinate with Content team members to outline quiz development priorities on a set schedule and adapt to evolving priorities based on changing IT market trends, cloud and software technology and/or enterprise training priorities.
• Collaborate with the content team and engineering team members to design new assessment types.
• Content Management:
• Review and update existing quiz library to maintain currency with cloud platforms and QA courses
• Integrate content management tasks, such as reviews and updates, into work schedule while continuing development of new content

A little about QA:

At QA, our mission is powering people's potential.

We believe the answer to closing the digital skills gap lies with the people organisations already have and the talent we can bring for the future.

We're experts in reskilling, upskilling, apprenticeships, and other talent needs for leading enterprises and public sector organisations in the UK and we're proud to work with some of the world's biggest brands including the BBC, AWS, Google, Deloitte, JP Morgan as well as small organisations to give them the competitive edge in the digital world of today. Our bespoke and customisable training methods, learning programmes and talent acquisition solutions cover all digital requirements including emerging and in-demand tech skills to transform the workforce and fuel the success of businesses.

Down time
Taking time for ourselves is so important these days which is why we dedicate some of our benefits to support your health & wellbeing. These include: 27 days holiday each year, holiday buying scheme, Medicash plan, Gympass, Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, and 2 days per year charity leave.


How we'll help with finance matters
In addition to pension, group income protection and life assurance, QA are offering you an annual pay review, access to our employee discounts benefit hub with hundreds of deals and savings on goods and experiences, season ticket loan, tech scheme and an employee referral scheme.

Personal growth
Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!

You'll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you'll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics. Or perhaps you'd like to enrol on a Degree or Masters programme to enhance your skillset or learn new things.


Our people
We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual preference, or if you are disabled or a carer, we welcome you and the alternative perspectives you bring to our diverse family. We're proud of the progress we've achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity - our rankings on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List are a testament to this.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. All applicants with a disability who fulfil the role criteria will be progressed to the next stage of the process. Please let us know what reasonable adjustment, if any, you require.

If this is what you're looking for, here are the next steps:

Hit the apply button and register on our QA website to fill out our quick and easy application form. If you'd like to hear more about the role you can email me: - happy to help!

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