Technical Assurance Manager

We're looking for a Technical Assurance Manager to join our Devonport Royal Dockyard team based in Plymouth.

Location: Plymouth, Devonport Royal Dockyard

Hours: 42.5 hours per week

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Due to the sensitive nature of the site, BPSS security clearance is required. Please note that this process can take up to 8 weeks.

Eligibility criteria: Candidates must hold a passport from a NATO or MISWG member country and have resided in the UK for the past 5 years.

We're excited to welcome a Technical Assurance Manager to our KierBAM Joint Venture partnership. You'll play a vital role in ensuring technical quality, compliance, and integrity across our Royal Navy redevelopment project in Plymouth. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a collaborative environment where your expertise will directly contribute to maintaining the highest standards across all aspects of our operations.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Technical Assurance Manager, you'll be working within the Quality Assurance team, supporting them in maintaining exceptional standards and compliance. Your day to day will include:

• Leading technical assurance activities and conducting audits, inspections, and reviews to ensure compliance with industry standards
• Managing the non‑conformance process, trending data from corrective actions, and ensuring timely closure
• Collaborating with engineering, quality, safety, and project teams to identify and resolve technical issues
• Overseeing concrete management and materials management to maintain quality throughout the project
• Preparing clear, comprehensive technical assurance reports for senior management and stakeholders

What are we looking for?

This role of Technical Assurance Manager is great for you if:

• You hold a Civil Engineering or Construction-related qualification (HNC, BSc, MSc, BEng, or MEng) and have proven experience in technical or quality assurance
• You possess strong knowledge of industry standards, codes, and regulations, with experience conducting audits and managing compliance activities
• You're an excellent communicator with strong organisational skills who can work collaboratively across different teams
• You're ISO 9001 Lead Auditor trained and hold a CSCS White/Managers Card
• You meet the eligibility criteria: holding a passport from a NATO or MISWG member country and having resided in the UK for the past 5 years

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role and the nature of the work at this site, you will be required to complete a Government Security Check (SC) Clearance, which takes place during/before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre‑requisite criteria including residency history. Applicants with convictions will be treated on a case‑by‑case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us - to read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit www.kier.co.uk/careers/making-ground. This role will also be subject to further pre‑employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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