About the job

Job summary

The Site Quality Conformance Officer (SQCM), is responsible to MOD St Athan Quality System Owner (QSO), through OC SHSE&Q and the Quality System Manager (QSM), for the overall coordination of the Quality Management System (QMS) at MOD Lyneham, following the guidance laid out in Chap 11.1 of the MAM-P  and the directives detailed in AP100C-10 . They are to maintain support to, but not include those specific areas managed and coordinated by the No 4SoTT Quality Manager (QM).  In general terms, as part of the Unit Safety and Assurance Cell (USAC), you are to act as the Focal Point (FP) and a conduit for all matters relating to operational Quality Assurance at MOD St Athan.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

Acting as the Quality System Coordinator (QSC) as required by Order 4.0C of AP100C-10; further details of SQCM and QSC responsibilities as appropriate to MOD St Athan are defined in the Unit Quality Manual[1]. Maintaining a QMS at MOD St Athan on behalf of the MOD St Athan QSO iaw Order 2.0 of AP100C-102 as appropriate to the MOD St Athan task and Mission.[

The creation of a quality audit plan with the approval of, and in liaison with the QSM, designed to maintain and continually improve the standards and practices at MOD St Athan as required by Order 2.0 of AP100C-102 and as detailed in the UQM[1].

Coordinating and managing Quality Audit records and reports for presentation to the appropriate QSO for his scrutiny and comment iaw Chap 11.1 of MAM-P1.  Any outstanding actions required by the QSO are to be followed through to a satisfactory conclusion.

Providing advice and guidance to customers on quality issues and the promotion of quality awareness at MOD St Athan.  This is to include the coordination and following up internal and external Quality Occurrence Reports (QORs) as required by MAM-P1.

Acting as the Focal Point (FP) for all MOD St Athan operational Quality Training as required by Order 5.0 of the AP100C-102 and maintaining currency of personal training requirements for the post of the SQCM; this being Q-Gen-QAS together with X-700 and X-701 qualifications as required by the AP100C-102 Order 5.0.

Planning in Task Audits (TA) and Task Assurance Audits (TAA) when requested to do so by the QSO, the QSM or Sqn Cdrs the UCM4

 

Person specification

The successful candidate will be prepared to attend the QMS Audity Skill Course and the Audit Practioner course.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.

Candidates are to apply online.  Sift will take place in MOD Lynham week commencing 22 Jul 24.

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

· Changing and Improving

· Making Effective Decisions

· Working Together

· Communicating and Influencing

At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

· Changing and Improving

· Making Effective Decisions

· Working Together

· Communicating and Influencing

· Seeing the Big Picture

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.