Principal Quality Officer

About the role

The Principal Quality Officer helps the organisation maintain and improve its quality management system and supports quality assurance across operations. The role covers internal audits, corrective actions, quality performance monitoring and support for external and supplier audits.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the QMS and controlled documents in line with ISO 9001, customer, contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Plan and deliver the internal audit programme, report findings and verify action closure.
• Coordinate corrective actions, root-cause analysis and improvement activities, including monitoring their effectiveness.
• Monitor quality performance, risks and overdue actions, and provide concise reports and management review inputs.
• Support external and supplier audits, project quality, training and process reviews to agreed priorities.
• Provide practical quality advice, identify systemic issues and escalate significant risks to the HSEQ Manager.
• Provide quality-related support and coverage based on competence, risk, agreed priorities and available capacity.