Quality Lead

Application Deadline: 18 October 2026

Department: SHEQ & Growth

Location: Suffolk

Description

Join OCU Group and play a key role in delivering one of the UK's largest HV transmission infrastructure programmes. As Quality Lead, you'll drive quality across major cable route and civil engineering works, ensuring projects are delivered safely, compliantly, and to the highest standards.

Working as part of a collaborative project team, you'll lead quality from mobilisation through to final handover, embedding best practice across construction, engineering, and supply chain activities. You'll work closely with operational teams, designers, subcontractors, and clients to ensure quality is built into every stage of project delivery while driving continuous improvement across the programme.

Based primarily from our Suffolk project office, this role offers hybrid working with regular travel to project locations in Kent, giving you the opportunity to support delivery across multiple workstreams on a nationally significant infrastructure programme.

What You'll Do

• Lead quality across major HV cable route and civil engineering projects.
• Develop and maintain Project Quality Plans, Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs), and quality management systems.
• Conduct internal audits, supplier audits, and site quality inspections to ensure compliance with project and ISO standards.
• Manage NCRs, corrective actions, root cause investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee quality documentation, inspection records, as-built information, and project handover documentation.
• Work closely with construction, engineering, commercial, and project teams to embed quality throughout delivery.
• Monitor project quality performance, analyse trends, and provide reporting to support continual improvement.
• Build strong relationships with clients, subcontractors, suppliers, and delivery teams.
• Champion a proactive quality culture across the project.
  
  

Essential

What you'll bring

• Proven experience as a Quality Lead, Project Quality Manager, Quality Manager, Quality Engineer, or Senior Quality Advisor.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.
• Internal Auditor qualification or significant internal auditing experience.
• Experience within utilities, power, energy, major infrastructure, or heavy civil engineering projects.
• Experience managing Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs), quality documentation, audits, and project handovers.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience working with client quality requirements and quality governance.
• Ability to work independently across live construction projects.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience working on HV transmission, cable route, or major utility infrastructure projects.
• Exposure to cable installation, heavy civils, trenching, duct installation, HDD, or complex infrastructure works.
• Experience supporting offshore landfall or marine infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of testing, commissioning, and project handover processes.
• Experience managing subcontractor and supplier quality.
• Lead Auditor qualification.
• Familiarity with Common Data Environments (SharePoint, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Asite, or similar)
  
  

To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing recruitment@ocugroup.com.