Quality Engineer

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. 

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role is within our Electricity Transmission division. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing

M Group are recruiting for a Quality Engineer to join our Substations Design team!

Within this role you'll lead and oversee all quality activities across major engineering projects, ensuring works are delivered safely, compliantly, and to the highest standards. Working closely with clients, suppliers, and site teams, you'll manage audits, inspections, testing, and project quality documentation from start to finish.

This role includes travel nationally and internationally (approximately 30-40%) for supplier audits, FAT/SAT activities, and site inspections.

We can be flexible on locations.

• Develop and maintain Project Quality Plans aligned with ISO 9001 and client requirements.
• Create and manage Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs), checklists, test packs, and quality assurance processes.
• Ensure traceability of materials, equipment, and works throughout the project lifecycle.
• Review design deliverables for compliance, constructability, and adoption requirements.
• Manage document control, verification, validation, and change management processes.
• Audit and qualify suppliers and subcontractors, ensuring quality requirements are met across the supply chain.
• Oversee FAT/SAT activities, material certification, supplier surveillance, and quality records.
• Conduct inspections across civil, electrical, and mechanical works to ensure compliance with specifications and standards.
• Verify material traceability, testing records, calibration control, and as-built documentation.
• Witness commissioning and acceptance testing, ensuring complete and approved quality records.
• Manage NCRs, concessions, and deviations, leading root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Conduct internal, supplier, and site audits and support client and third-party audits.
• Monitor quality KPIs, provide reporting, and support project handover and adoption activities.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, BS EN/IEC standards, and relevant industry regulations.
• Maintain electronic document management systems and digital quality assurance tools.
• Produce and manage project handover quality documentation.
• Liaise with clients, suppliers, manufacturers, and site teams to promote quality excellence.

What you’ll bring 

• Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering.
• Proven QA/QC experience within power transmission and distribution, substations, overhead lines, or cable projects.
• ISO 9001 Internal Auditor qualification (Lead Auditor desirable).
• Experience with ITPs, FAT/SAT, quality assurance processes, and handover documentation.
• Knowledge of relevant BS EN/IEC standards and UK utility adoption requirements.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and digital QA systems.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel.
• Experience working with DNOs, transmission operators, or utility infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of ESQCR, CDM 2015, and electrical safety requirements.
• Power BI or quality reporting/visualisation experience.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., ECS, CSCS, EUSR).

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme

• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

• Employee assistance programme

• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts

• Life assurance

• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes

• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave

• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers; 

• Company car and fuel card or Car Allowance with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from

• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet

We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations

We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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