Total 9 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Blagdon, Bristol

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Compliance Solicitor
£40,000 - £55,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6A)
Manchester, Bristol, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Sheffield - (hybrid working)

We're looking for a compliance solicitor to join us at Co-op Legal Services (CLS).

In this role, we'll look to you to be our technical specialist in regulatory compliance, providing compliance oversight and strategic support to the business for all legal and regulatory requirements. You'll work collaboratively with the compliance manager on providing expertise relating to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) code of conduct, operational governance, regulatory compliance framework, data protection, anti-money laundering, complaint handling, professional indemnity insurance and negligence claims. As a fast-growing business, you'll also support us in providing due diligence and governance of contractual relationships with our business partners. As we continue to grow, they'll be plenty of opportunity to develop your skills and build a rewarding career with us.

What you'll do:

* draft and review CLS policies and procedures - working with other business areas to drive efficiencies whilst meeting regulatory obligations
* assist operations with client onboarding including conflict checking, client due diligence and AML queries
* support the data protection lead and deputise when necessary to managing DSARs, deletion requests, and undertaking data breach investigations
* sample file reviews/audits
* be responsible for Practicing Certificate and PII policy renewals
* investigate regulatory breach notifications, preparing reports for COLP/SRA as required
* monitor the relationships with new and existing business partners, performing due diligence and governance of contracts
* provide support and manage issues escalated from CLS colleagues and Heads of Practice

This role would suit people who have:

* qualified as a solicitor
* significant experience of SRA regulation
* a background in legal operations, working in an SRA regulated environment
* experience of dealing with complaints and professional negligence claims
* good knowledge of data protection legislation and processes
* understanding of money laundering regulations
* excellent relationship building and communication skills

Why Co-op?

Here you'll do work that matters. We're a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you'll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You'll also get a package that includes:

* competitive salary
* coaching, training and support to help you develop
* pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* annual incentive scheme
* 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 32 in line with service)
* discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you're successful in your application, we'll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Job Title: Cost Control Lead
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59732

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Cost Control Lead at our Ashton House site.

The Role
As a Cost Control Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Supporting the delivery of vital military capability. Your work will directly contribute to shaping the future of Submarines within the UK.

This role will play a crucial part in managing the financial aspects of the Dreadnought project through to completion, such as cost forecasting, cost variance analysis and performance evaluation, to ensure that the project remains on track financially against the approved budget.

Day-to-day, you'll:

• Establish, implement and maintain best practice cost control systems across the Dreadnought Programme.
• Assist the team in all aspects of Project Cost Control.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to the Dreadnought team relating to cost control.
• Prepare and deliver all necessary internal and external cost control reports and documentation.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Cost Control Lead

• Considerable experience in the advanced application of Project Management techniques in a relevant technical project environment across the full project lifecycle.
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of contract and commercial management.
• Experience in the application of Schedule Risk Analysis/ Cost Risk Analysis (SRA/CRA).
• Previous experience on complex defence Projects (desirable, but not essential)

Qualifications for the Cost Control Lead

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview

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Our Client based in South West England are currently recruiting for a Class 3 Building Control Surveyor to join their team as soon as possible.

This is a full time, permanent role offering £48,710 per year + Car Allowance and Hybrid working / supported relocation.

The purpose of the role is to enforce the Building Regulations and allied legislation in the capacity as a Registered Building inspector under the Building Safety Act 2022.
Manage development proposals through the Building Control process from the pre-application stage through to completion on site of applications deposited to the Local
Authority or as required as part of a multi-disciplinary team for the Building Safety Regulator. Act as technical adviser and decision maker on Building Control and other related issues, whilst acting as lead officer on major Building Regulation applications.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a detailed knowledge of the building regulations, structural engineering, fire engineering, or other specialism relevant to the team to which the post-holder is allocated, ensuring consistency and accuracy of professional interpretation, and act as professional expert.
• Interpret Central Government guidance & Building Control policy, including the preparation & organisation of the council's case to justify its decision(s) including at appeals & determinations submitted to Central Government & at court proceedings.
• Ensure that Building Control revenues are maximised by maintaining our market share, through efficient invoicing and the determination of applications within prescribed time periods.
• As part of the service planning process for the Building Control Team, explore, devise & present technical justification to management team, for specific project proposals.
• Work in an ethical way, where compliance with regulations is the primary task and winning new work secondary, not bidding for new work on the basis of interpretation
• Provide technical oversight and training of class 2 building control surveyors assisting by working under supervision on complex schemes.

If interested or have any questions, please feel free to get in touch on 01772 208967 or via email at james.glover@servicecare.org.uk

Carbon60 are looking to recruit a Senior Building Control Surveyor to join a large organisation in Bristol, this is a Permanent position within a stable industry with plenty of opportunities for growth and development.

Location: Bristol (Hybrid) Flexible with home working when not undertaking inspections.

Salary: £48,710.00 with £3000 on call allowance

Contract: Permanent 37 hours per week

The Role:

• To enforce the building regulations and allied legislation in the capacity as a Registered building Inspector under the Building Safety Act 2022
• Manage development proposals through the Building Control Process from the pre-application stage through to completion on site
• Acting as lead officer on major Building Regulation applications
• Provide technical oversight and training of class 2 building control surveyors assisting by working under supervision on complex schemes.

Benefits:

• Flexible working including the ability to accrue additional days of through flexi hours
• 25 Days Annual Leave raising to 30
• Cost of BSR Registration covered
• Fully supported access to CPP opportunities
• Relocation allowance available
• Option to buy more leave
• EV Car least salary sacrifice scheme

The Successful Candidate:

• Hold Registration with the BSR at Class 3H
• Ability to support Junior Staff (Although no line management responsibilities)
• Sound awareness of the overall legislative contact within which a local authority building control body functions
• Significant relevant experience of working for a building control body.
• Demonstrable experience & proven ability to deal with significant workloads in one or more of the following:
  • Building control plan examination or construction inspection services.
  • Building control enforcement/related public protection functions.
  • Structural engineering or fire engineering services.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Credit Control Supervisor to join our busy team at Brandon Hire Station in Bristol. Reporting in to the Accounting Services Manager, your key responsibilities will be to ensure your team are performing all key accounts receivable processes accurately to the highest standard for our internal and external customers.
Key Responsibilities

• Ensure customers adhere to their payment terms through effective management of team members
• Overseeing effectiveness of the team in terms of debtor days
• Develop customer relationships to improve the service delivered by the credit control team
• Build strong relationships with internal customers in addition to other agencies
• Working with the credit control team to pro-actively ensure that overdue debt, due debt and unallocated cash are dealt with in a timely manner in addition to ensuring queries are resolved
• Ensure overdue accounts are escalated to the legal team in a timely manner
• Provide accurate and timely fiscal information to the Finance team on a monthly basis
• Responsible for carrying out the Month and Year End processing
• Ownership and accountability for your allocated ledger, being pro-active in managing the collection and resolution of the debt and individual queries
• Improving percentage of debts paid to terms, reducing the aged debt profile
• Escalation of accounts in line with agreed collection paths
• Reduction of debt over ninety days overdue, taking ownership of escalating aged queries
• Allocation of any unallocated cash
• Performance and Development reviews carried out on a regular basis using the company’s performance and development process.
• Ensure individuals are trained and developed effectively to be able to carry out their roles

What We’re Looking For

• Accounts receivable experience essential
• Experience of managing a team desirable
• Flexible approach to working hours especially at month/year end
• Intermediate Excel skills essential
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office programmes
• Demonstrate experience of working with internal customers at all levels
• Experience of using and creating pivot tables and lookups is desirable
• ICM level 3 (or studying towards) would be desirable

What We Can Offer You

• Competitive salary
• Monday to Friday working, no weekends
• Salary sacrifice pension
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Additional holiday purchase scheme
• Free Tool Hire
• Life Assurance cover 3x salary
• Share save scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Recommend a friend scheme
• Learning & Development – commitment to upskilling and developing our people, structured in house training available alongside external training where required
• Cycle to work scheme
• Long service recognition
• My Vp discounts – a variety of discounts and rewards on thousands of well-known brands
• Discounts on HP products
• EE mobile contract discount offers
• Gym discounts
• Health Shield (discounted premiums on health care cash plan)
• Regit Assist 24/7 accident helpline – free joining

A Little Bit About Us
Brandon Hire Station is the leading provider of tool and equipment hire in the UK.
Our commitment to exceptional customer support services is unmatched in the industry. We guarantee timely delivery of our tools and equipment through our branded vehicles and FORS accredited drivers. Plus, with our 'Everyday Product Hire Guarantee', you can trust that our most hired products are always available at every branch, every day, collected or delivered throughout the UK.
At Brandon Hire Station, we're actively looking for passionate individuals to join our team. We're committed to providing the highest level of service to our customers and we're always on the lookout for like-minded professionals who share our dedication to excellence.
If you're interested in working for a company that's committed to providing exceptional customer support services, we invite you to apply for a position with Brandon Hire Station today.
Vp plc is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.

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Job Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59670

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Quality Engineer at our Bristol site.

The Role
As a Quality Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Supporting the Manufacturing Quality Assurance Manager / Senior Quality Assurance Engineer in the day-to-day Quality support of the Production Facilities within Mission systems.

Day-to-day, you'll be ensuring delivered product meets the customer requirements for Quality, Cost and On Time Delivery; this will be realised through an audit programme, documentation review and clearance, supporting lean initiatives and root cause investigation and subsequent preventative action:

• Comply with as appropriate the organisation's quality policies, plans and procedures.
• Undertake internal surveillance and spot audits on the production facility to ensure compliant product and compliance with our BMS system.
• Identification and control of Non-conformance from Containment to preventative action including trend monitoring, conducting/supporting investigations and working closely with the supply chain quality team to prevent supplier escapes into the business.
• Formally review and approve activities, work or documentation, in accordance with the appropriate regulatory, policy and procedural obligations. Including documentation pack sign off and product verification.
• Able to interpret specifications, standards and drawings and apply quality principles to establish quality requirements.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office / onsite and 2 days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential Experience of the Quality Engineer:

• Demonstratable quality experience.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, procedures and supporting documentation.
• Knowledge of workshop protocols.
• Capable of following work instructions and equipment manuals.
• Lean awareness.

Qualifications for the Quality Engineer:

• HNC / HND (or equivalent / similar) in an appropriate subject or Engineering based apprenticeship or equivalent experience.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.

What We Offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

This is an exciting new development support role with the WT&E Workforce Training and Education directorate which encompasses the requirement for the NHS to have a sufficient and inclusive workforce with the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver compassionate high-quality health and care to the people it serves.

The post holder will support activities within a team who is responsible for supporting system-wide development and improving capability across the healthcare system in relation to increasing supply, workforce assurance and provision of HR and OD advice and guidance.

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff internal and external to the organization.

The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the team.

The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions, and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.

The postholder will also be responsible for supporting ad hoc projects and initiatives as they arise at the direction of the Head of Workforce Assurance, HR & OD.

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website.

The post holder will support the Head of Department and their team to ensure that their work stream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:
• Deliver the team’s business plan, and support the HR supply and resourcing manager to progress plans, reporting risk and issues as they arise
• Liaise with appropriate functions within the region, organisations, and the wider sector.
• Support all aspects of the teams projects.
• Enable organisational development for the SW ways of working programme.


This advert closes on Tuesday 19 Nov 2024

• Performs duties associated with the administration of the quality assurance provisions of contracts by designing, implementing, and maintaining a risk-based surveillance program and assessment plan.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements through analysis of process measurement data.
• Serves as a member of a multi-functional or technical team. Responsible for implementing the overall Quality Program for a diversity of products and services in support of U.S. Government acquisition at one or more supplier’s facilities.
• Ensures contractor compliance with all requirements related to the design, manufacturing, repair, overhaul, and modernization of a variety of items for contractor and customer activities throughout the world.
• Independently performs audits/surveillance of contractor’s processes to ensure customer and contractual requirements are met.
• Investigates and provides data on customer complaints/concerns regarding contractor’s quality performance and processes which impact user satisfaction.
• Provides technical support to all other DCMA team members, assisting in the analysis of contract related issues to determine the best course of action to support the contractor and customers.

Starting at $79,839 Per Year (GS 11)