Job Description: Quality & Innovation Lead (M&E)

Location: Dublin / International Expansion Strategic requirements

Reports to: Operations Director / Board of Directors

Role Purpose

The Quality & Innovation Lead is a pivotal leadership role responsible for the evolution of CJK’s Integrated Management System (IMS). You will bridge the gap between traditional compliance and modern construction technology, ensuring that our M&E delivery meets the highest international standards while spearheading LEAN initiatives and digital integration. This is a strategic leadership role to ensure CJK is structured to expand internationally

Key Responsibilities

Quality Governance & Compliance

• IMS Management: Lead the implementation and maintenance of ISO 9001:2015, with strategic oversight of ISO 14001, 45001, 27001. Across our operation, on projects and within our supporting functions. Amttivo has been selected as our new ISO supplier you will lead this implementation and annual audit compliance process.
  Accreditation Strategy: Drive the transition of the company’s certification towards INAB Accreditation with our EHS team.
• Regulatory Leadership: Act as the Principal Duty Holder (support nominated CJK PDH initially) for the Safe Electric Account. Maintain expert knowledge of I.S. 10101:2020 and HV/MV distribution regulations.
• BCAR Management: Lead the BCAR 2014 inspection process, ensuring all Ancillary Certificates, CE marking, and Commissioning reports are captured for final handover.

Project Excellence & Technical Delivery

• As part of our strategic development to bring us to 2030 you will play a leading role in Project #1 How we work as one team – Key focus will be developing our CJK Playbook to support and develop QA/QC consistency across our operation.
• Tendering support: Develop QA focused Project Execution Plans (PEP) for competitive tendering.
• Quality Planning: Develop project-specific PQPs, ITPs, and QC Test Packs for complex M&E scopes.
• Commissioning Oversight: Plan and schedule multi-discipline testing to Data Centre standards (Level 3 CX, Level 4 FST, and Level 5 IST).
• Audit & Assurance: Execute site audit schedules, documenting non-conformances (NCRs) and conducting root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Supply Chain Quality: Monitor the EU Safety Gate System to mitigate risks associated with defective products within the EU-27 jurisdiction.
• Compliance: MEP regulatory compliance for international operations for new jurisdictions. Implementation of CJK QA/QC protocol for same.

Digital Innovation & Data Analytics

• Construction Technology: Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for digital tools including Procore, FieldView, and Viewpoint.
• Procore is the CJK digital tool for QA/QC/EHS and projects where we are PSCS. You are required to lead this transition and drive our adaption.
• BIM Integration: Provide leadership and innovation adaption to ensure our team are well positioned to exploit BIM technology working closely to support and collaborate with our BIM Manager.
• Business Intelligence: Transform raw site data into actionable insights using Power BI to present productivity and quality metrics to the Board.
• Process Improvement: Promote LEAN Construction tools and modern methodologies (BIM, LEED, BREEAM, WELL) to reduce waste and enhance project margins.
• CJK Planning process: Manage and evolve the CJK planning process/tools/reporting to enhance our project controls. Supporting our scheduling team to allow us develop better project control methodology this will include digital innovations to align project progress reporting.

People, Training & Mentorship

• Graduate & Apprentice Development: Oversee the Quality module of the CJK Graduate Programme, mentoring candidates in technical and “soft” leadership skills.
• Resource Management: Lead the recruitment, training, and scheduling of the QA/QC Testing team and auditing team.
• Develop engineering teams capability and compliance requirements to enhance our QA/QC process with our Engineering Manger.
• Knowledge Sharing: Champion the CJK ACE Initiative, fostering a culture where “Lessons Learned” are effectively integrated into future project planning.
• Develop our QA/QC project Commissioning capabilities – Defined process which can be implemented and measured to assess our performance.

Strategic Leadership – Operations

• Promoting Innovation within CJK, both onsite and in Headquarters is an essential leadership requirement. Ownership and responsibility to deliver these innovations will be a key function of your role, this is a critical KPI.
• There are four key strategic projects planned to support our development to 2030. You will play a key role in supporting/implementing these programmes.
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  o How We Grow
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