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Mechanical Quality Surveillance Engineer (Energy) UK Wide

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Your new role, what's involved?

Representing WSP’s leading Quality Services (QS) business group as a Quality Surveillance Engineer you will provide quality surveillance services to safeguard product and service conformity in totality with our client’s needs.

We are a global ISO 17020 “Type C” Inspection Body with a proud 40-year history of providing quality consultancy, audit, advisory services, and manufacturing assurance to the Energy, Industrial and Transportation sectors.

Our services include oversight of asset maintenance, manufacturing assurance of new and refurbished power plants, nuclear, offshore wind, hydro, thermal power, solar and battery storage equipment, supported by an infrastructure of Subject Matter Experts.

In this role you will:

• Undertake Quality Control and Assurance tasks of Electrical equipment during manufacture.

• Carry out audits of suppliers and processes.

• Assist with the review, mark-up and approval of Inspection and Test Plans (ITP’s), and associated Quality Documentation.

• Ensure assignment activities are executed in compliance with client requirements and relevant contractual specifications, including national and international standards and specifications.

• Communicate directly with the client and their supply chain relating to all quality matters arising.

• Produce detailed technical reports reflecting Quality Surveillance activities undertaken.

• Liaise with Project Managers in providing technical information supporting the inspection and testing activities.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Detailed engineering experience gained within a Power Generation maintenance or service environment.

• Experience of Quality Control and/or Quality Assurance activities gained within a maintenance or service environment.

• Recognised craft apprenticeship training and formal engineering qualifications (HNC, HND, BEng, BSc or equivalent).

• Candidates will have Mechanical Engineering experience in any of the following:

• Valves

• Pumps

• Gas Turbines

• Steam Turbines

• Rotating Plant

• Piping

• Pressure Vessels

• Compressors

Quality Engineering experience in the following is highly desirable:

• Auditing

• Supply Chain Assessment

• Quality Management Systems

Other Attributes

• Our Quality Surveillance Engineers must be able to demonstrate a methodical approach to inspection and general problem solving as well as being confident in challenging manufacturers, clients contract partners or client representatives where non-compliance to project specifications may be identified.

• Detailed reporting is a large part of a Quality Surveillance Engineers day-to-day activities. It is essential that all candidates are computer literate and are capable of producing coherent and technically fulfilled reports.

What's in it for you?

• Work-life balance?

WSP recognises that work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important – whether that’s for your families, friends, or yourself.

Our hybrid working policy allows the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home as well as collaborating in our contemporary offices across the UK.

• Inclusivity & Diversity?

We want our people to achieve rewarding careers, bringing their whole selves to work. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP.

Our employee resource groups VIBE (LGBTQ+ employees), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) and our Gender Balance Group, in tandem with WSP’s Neurodiverse Community Group, WSP Connect Group (visible and non-visible disabilities) help us promote the right environment for you to reach your full potential.

• Health & Wellbeing?

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

Med24 gives you and your family unrestricted telephone access to an NHS doctor where you can call day or night or have a face-to-face video consultation.

• Flex your time?

For improved work life balance, WSP offers the “WSP Hour” which enables you to take one hour per day to do as you wish and make up the time earlier or later that day. We also offer part time and flexible working arrangements plus the option to flex your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

• Your development?

We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that’s why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that’s chartership, training or mentoring.

Apply now and be the future of WSP!

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Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.

Please note WSP reserves the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

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