Quality Assurance Specialist

Overview

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a CANDU Quality Specialist to support the delivery of world-class nuclear projects across the global CANDU portfolio.

Reporting to Quality function, you will provide independent quality assurance oversight to ensure engineering and project activities are delivered in compliance with nuclear regulatory requirements, customer commitments, and the CANDU Quality Assurance Program.

You will play a key role in strengthening quality culture, driving compliance, managing quality risks, and ensuring the objective evidence, traceability, and governance required to support safe, reliable, and Right First-Time delivery within a highly regulated nuclear environment.

Your Role

Nuclear Quality Assurance

• Support the implementation and continual improvement of the CANDU Quality Assurance Program.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, customer, project, and management system requirements.
• Support the development and execution of project Quality Assurance Plans and quality oversight strategies.
• Provide independent quality assurance support across engineering and project delivery activities.
• Promote a strong Nuclear Safety Culture and Quality Culture across project teams.
• Engineering Quality
• Provide quality assurance oversight of design and engineering processes.
• Verify compliance with design control, verification, validation, and configuration management requirements.
• Support quality reviews and assessments of engineering deliverables and records.
• Identify quality risks and drive timely resolution of quality concerns.
• Ensure objective evidence is maintained to demonstrate compliance with project and regulatory requirements.
  
  

Audit, Compliance and Continuous Improvement

• Conduct audits, surveillances, and compliance assessments.
• Support customer, regulatory, and third-party inspections.
• Manage quality findings, non-conformances, and corrective actions through to effective closure.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and lessons learned activities.
  
  

About You

• The successful candidate will demonstrate uncompromising integrity, a strong commitment to Nuclear Safety Culture, and the confidence to provide objective and independent quality assurance oversight, even when faced with challenging project pressures.
• They will possess exceptional attention to detail, a questioning attitude, and the professional judgement required to identify quality risks, challenge assumptions, and ensure compliance with nuclear quality requirements.
• The individual will be highly analytical, disciplined, and evidence-driven, with a passion for delivering quality outcomes through rigorous verification, traceability, and continual improvement.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills are essential, enabling them to build trusted relationships with engineering, project, supply chain, and quality teams while promoting accountability, learning, and Right First-Time delivery.
• Above all, they will be recognised as a dependable quality professional who upholds the highest standards of safety, compliance, and technical excellence in support of global CANDU nuclear projects.
  
  

Rewards & Benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This Includes

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
  
  

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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