Senior Quality Advisor

We’re changing the way Australia generates its energy, are you ready for a change?

UGL's Utilities business provides essential projects and services for critical infrastructure across the water and power sectors. Ranging from wastewater treatment plants to power stations, Utilities provide an end-to-end offering from concept design through to operations and maintenance.

We have an immediate opportunity for a Senior Quality Advisor, experienced in Transmission Lines, Substations, or Renewable Energy to join our HSEQ team based in Sydney or Brisbane.

The Senior Quality Advisor role is responsible and accountable for developing, implementing, and maintaining robust Power Generation Quality Management Systems. This is a crucial for ensuring project compliance and contractual obligations, as well as CIMIC/UGL policies, relevant legislation, and recognized industry standards are adhered to.

Main responsibilities include:

• Championing the UGL Quality Principles throughout the Utilities line of business
• Ensuring the UGL Quality Fundamentals are understood and effectively implemented.
• Reviewing assigned technical documentation and ensure correct specifications and drawings etc are included/ referred to in Work Packs and Inspection & Test Plans.
• Providing quality guidance, training, and mentorship to geographically dispersed teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and innovation.
• Monitoring all quality related activities on the project.
• Implementing a dashboard to track quality performance across the Utilities line of business.
• Developing and/or facilitate the development of inspection & test plans and associated check/inspection records.
• Determining measurement capability appropriate to the activities and ensure that calibrated measuring and test equipment is available.
• Verifying suitability of qualifications/experience of personnel assigned (including subcontractors) to undertake inspection activities.
• Coordinating and/or undertake inspection activities and prepare inspection records as required by the ITPs.
• Monitoring the completion of Quality Records associated with assigned Work Packs and construction lots.
• Initiating and verifying the suitability of corrective or preventive action where required to eliminate existing or potential causes of non-conformance.
• Assisting with the resolution and close out of quality non conformances.
• Reviewing and compiling inspection records for compliance with agreed requirements and for inclusion with the Manufacturer’s Date Report.
• Preparing status reports covering assigned work areas in accordance with Project requirements.
• Undertaking quality audit.
• Assembling cost control and statistical data, as needed, in support of quality objectives.
• Providing quality input, review, and advice for tender submissions
• Undertaking Lessons Learnt and sharing findings across UGL.

The successful candidate will require:

• Proven experience in quality management principles, methodologies, and tools, ideally with specific experience in transmission lines, substations, or the renewable energy sector. 
• Appropriate technical qualifications
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Be personally committed to delivering high-quality results.
• Demonstrate a hands-on approach to achieving results.
• AS9001 Knowledge
• Quality auditing experience and qualifications
• Site experience and travel required – when required.
• Minimum basic skills – Microsoft Office suite.
• Completions Management experience is desirable.

Why Unite with the Very Best…

·       A rewarding Wellness Program with AIA Vitality – earn cashback for gym shoes! 

·       We’ll give you access to a multitude of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. 

·       You can also take advantage of our salary sacrifice options including cars, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships. 

UGL – Big projects. Big careers.  We keep Australia moving through our transport manufacturing, maintenance and operations offering, and we support the energy sector through our renewables, power generation, resources and transmission operations.  We are an end-to-end engineering and services provider (one of Australia’s biggest inhouse design houses) 

We’re the people behind communications, transport, utilities, power, oil, gas, Defence and renewables. We build tunnels under rivers and flyover roads. We’re the people who take on the problems that have never been solved. The ones that stretch you outside of what’s known, where your true genius is challenged and shines. 

Diversity & Social Inclusion UGL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where each employee feels safe to bring their whole selves to work. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, Women, Military Veterans, those from diverse cultural backgrounds, people with a disability and our friends in the LGBTIQ+ Community.

UGL respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in which we work and pays our respects to elders past, present and emerging.