Job Description/Specification:
GHD is seeking an experienced quality professional to support quality assurance, auditing, compliance, testing, and quality management activities. The role involves applying quality systems and standards, reviewing processes, analyzing quality data, supporting audits, and providing specialist guidance across projects and operations.
This opportunity is suited to professionals with more than six years of experience who can work independently, manage complex quality issues, and provide practical recommendations that improve compliance, reliability, and operational performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of audit assignments, ensuring identified risks are assessed and appropriate corrective actions are agreed and followed up.
- Provide specialist advice on quality policies, procedures, standards, and compliance requirements.
- Review and prepare technical or business documents in accordance with organizational standards.
- Analyze complex quality and testing data to assess materials, components, processes, and operational performance.
- Develop and validate quality testing methods and procedures as requirements, technology, and regulatory expectations evolve.
- Contribute to the development, improvement, and implementation of the Quality Management System (QMS).
- Review business processes and policies to identify opportunities for improvement and assess the costs and benefits of proposed changes.
- Plan and allocate short- and medium-term quality activities to meet operational commitments and project requirements.
- Prepare clear quality reports and provide recommendations based on audit findings, data analysis, and process performance.
- Support the use of quality management systems, compliance software, testing tools, and other digital technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification.
- More than six years and up to ten years of substantial relevant professional experience.
- Comprehensive experience in quality assurance, auditing, compliance, or a related professional discipline.
- Practical experience conducting audits, identifying exceptions, and developing corrective recommendations.
- Experience with Quality Management Systems and quality assurance methodologies.
- Strong ability to collect, analyze, interpret, and report quality-related data.
- Experience with project quality management, testing, requirements verification, and quality control.
- Understanding of policies, procedures, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
- Ability to coordinate the work of others and provide technical guidance when required.
- Strong planning, organization, communication, and analytical skills.
Why You'll Love This Opportunity
- Work across a broad range of quality assurance and compliance activities.
- Gain exposure to audits, project quality management, testing, and quality systems.
- Develop your professional judgment by handling complex quality and operational issues.
- Work with modern quality management software, testing tools, and digital technologies.
- Build further expertise in a multidisciplinary professional services environment.
Who Should Apply?
This position is suited to an experienced quality professional who can operate independently while providing guidance to colleagues and project teams.
The ideal candidate will be analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable investigating problems rather than simply identifying them. You should be able to examine information from multiple sources, determine root causes, and translate findings into practical recommendations.
Candidates with backgrounds in quality assurance, project quality, compliance, auditing, procurement quality, engineering quality, or quality management systems may find their experience relevant to the role.
Skills That Will Help You Succeed
Strong technical knowledge needs to be combined with sound professional judgment.
Important skills include:
- Quality assurance and quality control
- Auditing and compliance
- Quality Management Systems
- Project quality management
- Quality data analysis
- Requirements verification
- Testing methodologies
- Compliance software
- Quality reporting
- Process improvement
- Planning and resource allocation
- Policy and procedure interpretation
Technology awareness is also increasingly important, particularly for professionals working with quality management platforms, automated compliance processes, data analysis, and digital testing tools.
How to Stand Out
Your CV should demonstrate specific quality outcomes, rather than simply listing quality-related responsibilities.
Highlight the types and scale of audits you have managed, quality systems you have implemented or improved, and the processes or projects where your recommendations resulted in better compliance or operational performance.
Include measurable achievements where possible, such as reductions in defects, audit findings, non-conformances, testing time, compliance gaps, or process costs.
If you have worked with quality management software, compliance platforms, automated testing tools, or data analytics, clearly identify those systems and explain how you used them.
Interview Preparation
Prepare for questions such as:
- How do you plan and manage an audit from start to finish?
- How do you identify the root cause of a quality issue?
- Describe a significant non-conformance you identified and how it was addressed.
- How do you ensure corrective actions are effectively implemented?
- How have you improved a Quality Management System?
- How do you analyze complex quality data?
- Tell us about a time you had to challenge an existing process or procedure.
- How do you manage competing quality priorities and deadlines?
Use real examples and explain the situation, your actions, the reasoning behind your decisions, and the measurable result.
Career Growth
Experience across auditing, quality systems, compliance, testing, and project quality management can support progression toward roles such as Senior Quality Specialist, Quality Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Project Quality Manager, Compliance Manager, or broader operational excellence positions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What level of experience is required?
The profile indicates more than six years and up to ten years of substantial relevant experience.
Is a degree required?
A bachelor's degree or equivalent level of education is specified.
Is this purely an auditing position?
No. The role combines auditing with quality assurance, testing, quality systems, compliance, data analysis, reporting, and process improvement.
Will the role involve managing people?
The profile calls for basic experience coordinating the work of others, but it does not indicate extensive people-management responsibility.
What type of candidate would be a good fit?
An experienced quality professional with strong auditing, QMS, data analysis, compliance, project quality, and problem-solving experience who can work independently and provide specialist guidance.