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Principal Quality Engineer (QML)

Bridgwater, England, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-26 → 2026-09-28

Core

Senior Principal Quality Engineer leading quality assurance, management, and control services for client projects within multi-discipline teams, ensuring adherence to contracted quality requirements and nuclear safety standards.

Role type

Senior Principal Quality Engineer (Strategic & Hands-on Leadership)

Builds

Quality assurance frameworks, inspection/test plans, and non-conformance resolution processes for nuclear and heavily regulated client programs.

Domain

Nuclear energy / Heavy industrial regulation

Required skills

Quality assurance and control principles, process management, leading compliance with national/international standards (GS-R-3, ISO 9001, ISO19443, ISO 3834, EN10204), root cause analysis, audit planning and leadership, stakeholder engagement, quality data analysis, team leadership (8+ years), regulatory engagement experience.

Preferred skills

Engineering discipline knowledge, international quality environment experience, advanced quality tools (Histograms, SPC, Cause & Effect, Design of Experiments), second language skills.

Technologies

GS-R-3, ISO 9001, ISO19443, ISO 3834, EN10204, SPC, Design of Experiments

Responsibilities

Lead project direction from a quality perspective, define and approve quality arrangements and MIT plans, direct surveillance/inspection activities, oversee non-conformance processes and root cause analysis, lead cross-project audits, provide leadership in quality reporting and risk reviews.

Seniority

Principal, strategic leadership with hands-on execution

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