Quality Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Assystem scores B on the Alion truth index.
Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.
Assystem mobilizes 8,000 experts in 13 countries and intervenes across the entire project lifecycle, in engineering, project management and digital solutions.
Your future team:
Reporting to the Client Task Sponsor, Assystem Project Manager and Technical Lead, you will provide quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) expertise to infrastructure projects for a major Defence client. Working within a joint project team and its supply chain, you will help deliver work right first time.
Responsibilities:
As a Quality Engineer you will be required to provide quality assurance and quality control support and expertise, support flow-down of quality requirements to the supply chain and work collaboratively with your peers to ensure that all learning from experience is captured, shared, and incorporated into future works. Typical activities will include:
Provide on-site QA and QC support oNsite at our clients site in Derby for at least three days per week; Site attendance may increase depending on information classifications.
Build effective relationships with the client, suppliers and site stakeholders.
Identify and flow down client quality requirements across the supply chain.
Capture and share learning from experience across the Infrastructure Programme.
Create and deploy the Quality Management Plan (QMP), agreeing its scope and obtaining cross-functional technical input.
Support project procedures, processes and plans, and attend client site meetings.
Conduct internal and supplier audits or health checks, monitor KPIs and drive improvements.
Oversee supplier installation, manufacturing, acceptance testing and release inspections against contractual requirements.
Track quality risks, opportunities, non-conformances and defect notifications.
Lead quality investigations, root-cause analysis, process improvement and supplier escalation.
Define Lifetime Quality Records and coordinate suppliers’ final document packs through review and approval.
Why join the community of Switchers?
Assystem is one of the world’s top three nuclear engineering companies.
Our benefits include:
25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays with the option to buy and sell additional days (up to 5)
8% company pension contribution.
Healthcare cash plan covering dental, medical and physical care.
Employee assistance programme with 24/7 mental-health support, virtual gym classes and more.
Paid professional and industry membership fees.
Relevant engineering HNC (Level 4 or above), or equivalent experience.
Strong knowledge and implementation experience of ISO 9001:2015 quality management systems.
Demonstrable quality engineering experience across multiple projects and domains.
Essential
Industry-recognised auditor qualification, such as ISO 9001 Lead or Internal Auditor.
Relevant engineering HNC (Level 4 or above), or equivalent experience.
Desirable
Professional membership in an appropriate discipline, such as CQI or IRCA.
Recognised NDE/NDT qualification, such as PCN or CSWIP.
Many Assystem roles are subject to security and export-control restrictions. Eligibility may be affected by current or previous nationality and place of birth.
All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Roles requiring National Security Vetting typically require five to ten years of continuous UK residency, depending on the vetting level.
NOTICE TO CANDIDATES ON RECRUITMENT FRAUD - We are committed to safeguarding candidates from fraudulent activity associated with our recruitment process. Please note that we will never offer specialist CV writing services, request payment or ask for sensitive personal information during the recruitment process.
We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.