Standards and Certification Manager

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Job Description

Leads industry standards certification activities, ensuring certification is maintained, audit activities are carried out as required and instances of non-conformance / non-compliance are addressed promptly and within agreed timescales.

The role plays an important part in supporting the Divisional Risk Team to provide effective business partnering to Sector and Divisional level leadership teams including risk decision making at all business levels across multiple risk perspectives.

Click the link for the job description, responsibilities, and qualifications - RISE01- Senior Risk and Assurance Lead.pdf

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring the business maintains the following certifications: ISO 9001, 45001, 14001, 44001, TickITPlus, 27001, 22301, 20000-1, PAS 2080
• Leads industry standards certification activities, working with external providers (for example BSI) to plan and facilitate reviews with business units, contracts and offices / sites
• Supports business units, functions, contracts and offices in preparing for ISO audits and ensures any identified compliance gaps are addressed promptly and within agreed timeframes
• Maintains integrated audit plan, ensuring deconfliction with other assurance / audit activities (for example Internal Audit reviews) and timely communication of planned audits with Contract teams / offices
• Coordinates functional input / support to ISO audits (including SHE and IT)
• Conducts assurance reviews of bids' and contracts' adherence to Costain Way requirements, working with teams to review evidence, develop findings and agree rectification actions and timescales
• Performs annual ISO9001 internal audit of business processes and operations
• Collates compliance evidence as part of submission to external audit partners
• Prepares reports (for example of assurance reviews, audit progress, compliance status) to aid management in identifying improvements and interventions necessary, sharing findings and best practice and escalating urgent issues where necessary.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Quality Management System experience and comprehensive understanding of ISO 9001 and associated requirements
• Understanding of core business processes and controls (lifecycle governance, finance, business planning, risk management, health and safety, quality management)
• Good communication and collaboration / team working skills
• Proficient in writing clear, concise reports which collate data, highlight key findings and recommended actions
• Proficient in use of Microsoft office suite, Adobe Acrobat, Visio and management system applications.
• Familiarity with UK infrastructure sector and common sector risks and compliance issues

Behavioural Attributes

• Good communication skills with ability to present and explain complex information to a diverse audience.
• Able to work with a range of stakeholders and secure buy in and participation / engagement
• Excellent organisational and team working skills, proactive in working with and supporting others to achieve team goals
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to identify, develop and implement solutions to meet business needs / objectives
• Promotes good practice (e.g. compliance with process and controls), and is able to persuade others of the 'why', using negotiating skills and pragmatism to find a way through obstacles

Desirable

• Internal Audit experience
• Experience of developing and/or improving controls (including non-financial controls)
• Understanding of UK corporate governance and assurance requirements, and market providers
• Understanding of enterprise risk management

Able to hold UK security clearance

Qualifications

Essential

• Essential

ISO 9001 Lead auditor certification (CQI IRCA)

Desirable

• Desirable
• Certified Internal Auditor (IIA)
• Prince II or APM PMQ
• Six Sigma Green belt

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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