Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Description

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. 
• Analyse quality trends and identify opportunities to improve performance and reduce risk. 

Stakeholder Engagement 

• Partner with Engineering, Project Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Quality teams to embed quality requirements throughout the project lifecycle. 
• Provide quality guidance and coaching to project teams and stakeholders. 
• Communicate quality performance, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities to management. 

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.

Essential Qualifications and Experience 

• Degree in Engineering and Quality Management 
• Experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Nuclear Quality, or other highly regulated industries. 
• Experience implementing and maintaining Quality Management Systems and Quality Assurance Programs. 
• Experience conducting audits, assessments, supplier oversight, or compliance activities. 
• Experience managing non-conformances, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives. 
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills. 

Essential Technical Knowledge 

Working knowledge of

• CSA N299 Series 
• CSA N286 
• ASME NQA-1 
• ISO 9001 and ISO 19443  
• Nuclear Safety Culture principles 
• Supplier Quality Assurance 
• Audit and Surveillance Techniques 
• Design Control and Verification 
• Configuration Management 
• Quality Records and Traceability 
• Non-Conformance and Corrective Action Management 
• Working knowledge of Hexagon, AVEVA Smart 3D / E3D, and Siemens NX and domain knowledge of nuclear sector 

Desirable 

• CQI/IRCA Lead Auditor qualification. 
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) or equivalent. 
• Experience supporting CANDU, nuclear new build, refurbishment, or life extension projects. 
• Experience as a QA Specialist, QA Engineer, PQAR, CQAR, or equivalent quality role. 
• Lean Six Sigma certification. 
• Experience with digital quality management and reporting tools. 

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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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.