We’re thrilled that you’re interested in joining the British Board of Agrément.

The BBA is looking to hire a Quality Engineer to join our Quality team.

About Us:

The British Board of Agrément (BBA) provides services that help clients create accountability and mitigate risk. Through extensive research, auditing, inspection, testing and certification, we help to instil confidence in the entire Construction product supply chain. With a 60-year legacy as a trusted certification body, the BBA develops long-term partnerships with clients, assisting in the innovation and development of products and services, enabling continued commercial growth in both the UK and Global marketplaces, while remaining reassuringly impartial. The BBA looks to reinvest in the industry for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Purpose of Job:

The main purpose of the Quality Engineer is to manage and improve BBAs document management system, ensuring full compliance. This is a multi-skilled role where the job holder will be expected to undertake a wide range of internal audits, identifying potential corrective and preventative actions and reporting to Group Quality Manager.

Main Duties/Responsibilities:

Quality Management Systems

• Provide the basis for and monitor the first 2 Lines of Defence (LOD) for quality compliance across the business
• Provide Group Quality Manager with metrics that we are compliant to, raise issues and manage resolution on our controlling 17000-series documents and other committed assurance schemes (e.g. Achilles, Trustmark)
• Manage the system of controlled documents for the business, liaising with IT for the digital platform
• Vet controlled documents before they are adopted into the quality system; ensure they co-ordinate and reject them if they are not of a sufficient standard
• Other business improvement and development projects as agreed.

Internal Audit

• Support internal & cross-functional audits and reviews are done and acted upon through the CARA processes
• Where internal audits are allocated to the Quality Engineer, plan, organise and complete them
• Provide a sounding board on the development of operational processes, and documents
• Support reporting on Quality Metrics and Risk Management issues.

External Quality Assurance Audits

• Support the management of programmes of external audits including by UKAS & Achilles; set up and manage the deep dives; report on outcomes; oversee and report on the corrective actions
• Support new initiatives and change programmes to develop BBA compliance management to best-in-class status.

Continual Improvement

• Seek to drive Quality improvements through BBA
• Support the drive for digitisation
• Use available company metrics to monitor outputs
• Propose improvements to the system of controlled documents.

General Responsibilities

• Promote and adhere to all BBA policies and actively promote the BBA wherever possible
• Responsible for your own Health and Safety and that of your colleagues and others on the BBA premises in accordance with relevant health and safety legislation and the BBA Health & Safety Handbook.
• Carry out tasks broadly similar to those in this job description.
• Conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times, acting with integrity, impartiality and honesty at all times.
• Endeavour to self-improve and develop.

What we offer:

We believe that our strength lies in our people; that’s why we invest heavily in them through providing training to maintain and develop the skills of all our teams, enabling us to serve our clients better. Because of this we offer a total reward package of a competitive salary and employee benefits, including:

• Employer Contributory Pension Scheme of 6%
• Life assurance x4 annual salary
• Generous holiday allowance starting at 25 days and increasing to 30 after five years of service
• Health care cash plan scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme – with up to 6 counselling sessions
• Flexible working hours to fit in with individual lifestyles opportunity to work from home

We’re a social group and when we’re not working, we love to get together socially, and support local community initiatives whenever possible.