What are the responsibilities and job description for the PED Surveyor position at LRQA?
Job ID:41805
Location:[[location_obj]]
Position Category:Engineering
Position Type:Contractor On Demand
Role purpose:
Perform surveys of design, manufacture and in-service aspects of engineering assets for compliance against specified Codes, Standards, specifications and procedures. Assess and monitor the performance of other surveyors using knowledge and experience as appropriate for complex/demanding situations to ensure service delivery. This role may include managing projects.
Key Responsibilities:
Perform complex technical inspections/assessments against defined specifications/scope and provide advice for service delivery within agreed broad parameters that include budget constraints and contractual requirements.
Mentor, coach, give technical guidance to colleagues as appropriate to build capability, capacity and support networks to leverage knowledge transfer and application.
Assess/recommend the time/value of the work to be undertaken for internal/external clients within an agreed fee/cost structure and issue quotations up to an agreed limit and LRQA’s standard terms and conditions meeting job/project requirements.
Undertake project management, where applicable, including monitoring project progress and spend against budget and contract requirements
Ensure the appropriate authorisations are gained and are kept up to date. This may involve Activity Monitoring.
Seek new opportunities with existing clients and identify new clients within the region, supporting Sales and Marketing activities
Contribute to external client management; ensuring service delivery is continually improved through monitoring and acting on client feedback.
Ensure all activities in line with internal procedures, accreditation schemes, legislation and industry standards.
Pursue Continuous Professional Development and maintain a high degree of discipline, knowledge and awareness.
Key health & safety responsibilities:
Eliminate or minimise employee exposure to risks by regularly reviewing the health and safety risk register, applying appropriate controls, communicating results of risk assessments, and ensuring health and safety is considered in the planning and execution of all LRQA activities.
Manage your own, and your team’s, compliance with health and safety rules, instructions, systems and legal requirements to ensure employees are suitably trained and adequate resources are available to work safely.
Monitor and review health and safety performance, observe safety behaviours in the workplace, taking appropriate corrective and preventative action as necessary and suggesting and implementing improvement activities.
Number of direct reports
Geographic area of impact
Size of budget
Key stakeholders
Technical / Professional Qualifications / Requirements:
Must have a relevant Batchelor’s degree from a recognised University, or equivalent. Higher degree such as Masters may be required for some positions
Shall possess appropriate trade/technical/vocational qualifications/certification, including job-specific certifications such as ASME, PED etc
Preferably a qualified member of a recognised professional body e.g. www.nspe.org, www.cae.cn, www.engc.org.uk, www.ecindia.org . Likely to be working towards Chartered/Professional Engineer
Will possess sufficient, relevant previous working experience to demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the relevant requirements, knowledge and application
Technical competencies to be assessed within the authorisations’ framework will be unsupervised for some authorisations and may be supervised for others.
Competent in MS Office suite of software
Proficiency in English language commensurate with the work (both written and verbal)
Effective interpersonal skills
Likely to have 10 years’ relevant working experience
Local/Regional Requirements (in addition to those above):
Our Values:
Expertise
We value our experience, specialist knowledge, and pioneering history within the industry. But we also never stop looking for ways to learn and improve in the future.
Integrity
We always do what’s right, in the right way and continually measure our actions and their outcomes against rigorous criteria – both those of stakeholders and our own.
Ambition
We are industry leaders because we combine technology and innovation with the expertise of our people. We help our clients be the best they can be, by being the best we can be.
Vision
We support our clients in the present and prepare them for future success, by using our sharp understanding of social, environmental, technological, and commercial changes to work towards a safer, cleaner, more sustainable future.
Togetherness
We respect the unique skills, expertise and backgrounds of our people and the inclusive culture they create. We believe teamwork and collaboration – internally and with our clients – are the best way to achieve our mutual goals.
Behavioural Competencies (BCs):
Customer Focus
G3 – Takes responsibility for delivering customer needs
Team work
G3 - Actively includes, engages and supports others
G3 - Tailors and structures communication to specific audiences to engage and inspire
G3 - Ensures professional competence and shares knowledge with others
G3 - Considers the wider picture and brings this understanding to bear on decisions / actions
G3 - Takes a commercial view when making decisions and taking action
G3 – Assesses problems and develops pragmatic solutions
G3 - Plans and prioritises workload to ensure goals/targets are achieved
We are on a mission to be the place where we all want to work and we are passionate about embracing different perspectives because we understand the value this brings to our business, our clients and each other. We are all about creating a safer and more sustainable future and our inclusive culture is right at the heart of our business.
Together our employees make our communities better and we want you to be part of our diverse team!
LRQA is a leading global assurance provider. The integrity and expertise we bring to our partnership with clients support their journey to a safer, more secure and more sustainable future. ( Group entities ).
Copyright © LRQA 2021. All rights reserved. Terms of use. Privacy Policy.
Location:[[location_obj]]
Position Category:Engineering
Position Type:Contractor On Demand
Role purpose:
Perform surveys of design, manufacture and in-service aspects of engineering assets for compliance against specified Codes, Standards, specifications and procedures. Assess and monitor the performance of other surveyors using knowledge and experience as appropriate for complex/demanding situations to ensure service delivery. This role may include managing projects.
Key Responsibilities:
Perform complex technical inspections/assessments against defined specifications/scope and provide advice for service delivery within agreed broad parameters that include budget constraints and contractual requirements.
Mentor, coach, give technical guidance to colleagues as appropriate to build capability, capacity and support networks to leverage knowledge transfer and application.
Assess/recommend the time/value of the work to be undertaken for internal/external clients within an agreed fee/cost structure and issue quotations up to an agreed limit and LRQA’s standard terms and conditions meeting job/project requirements.
Undertake project management, where applicable, including monitoring project progress and spend against budget and contract requirements
Ensure the appropriate authorisations are gained and are kept up to date. This may involve Activity Monitoring.
Seek new opportunities with existing clients and identify new clients within the region, supporting Sales and Marketing activities
Contribute to external client management; ensuring service delivery is continually improved through monitoring and acting on client feedback.
Ensure all activities in line with internal procedures, accreditation schemes, legislation and industry standards.
Pursue Continuous Professional Development and maintain a high degree of discipline, knowledge and awareness.
Key health & safety responsibilities:
Eliminate or minimise employee exposure to risks by regularly reviewing the health and safety risk register, applying appropriate controls, communicating results of risk assessments, and ensuring health and safety is considered in the planning and execution of all LRQA activities.
Manage your own, and your team’s, compliance with health and safety rules, instructions, systems and legal requirements to ensure employees are suitably trained and adequate resources are available to work safely.
Monitor and review health and safety performance, observe safety behaviours in the workplace, taking appropriate corrective and preventative action as necessary and suggesting and implementing improvement activities.
Number of direct reports
Geographic area of impact
Size of budget
Key stakeholders
Technical / Professional Qualifications / Requirements:
Must have a relevant Batchelor’s degree from a recognised University, or equivalent. Higher degree such as Masters may be required for some positions
Shall possess appropriate trade/technical/vocational qualifications/certification, including job-specific certifications such as ASME, PED etc
Preferably a qualified member of a recognised professional body e.g. www.nspe.org, www.cae.cn, www.engc.org.uk, www.ecindia.org . Likely to be working towards Chartered/Professional Engineer
Will possess sufficient, relevant previous working experience to demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the relevant requirements, knowledge and application
Technical competencies to be assessed within the authorisations’ framework will be unsupervised for some authorisations and may be supervised for others.
Competent in MS Office suite of software
Proficiency in English language commensurate with the work (both written and verbal)
Effective interpersonal skills
Likely to have 10 years’ relevant working experience
Local/Regional Requirements (in addition to those above):
Our Values:
Expertise
We value our experience, specialist knowledge, and pioneering history within the industry. But we also never stop looking for ways to learn and improve in the future.
Integrity
We always do what’s right, in the right way and continually measure our actions and their outcomes against rigorous criteria – both those of stakeholders and our own.
Ambition
We are industry leaders because we combine technology and innovation with the expertise of our people. We help our clients be the best they can be, by being the best we can be.
Vision
We support our clients in the present and prepare them for future success, by using our sharp understanding of social, environmental, technological, and commercial changes to work towards a safer, cleaner, more sustainable future.
Togetherness
We respect the unique skills, expertise and backgrounds of our people and the inclusive culture they create. We believe teamwork and collaboration – internally and with our clients – are the best way to achieve our mutual goals.
Behavioural Competencies (BCs):
Customer Focus
G3 – Takes responsibility for delivering customer needs
- Listens and asks questions to gain an understanding of customer needs and expectations
- Ensures that colleagues are aware of customer needs and understand how their role impacts the customer
- Anticipates customer needs, actively seeking feedback to improve satisfaction
- Takes responsibility for resolving problems within the scope of his/her experience
Team work
G3 - Actively includes, engages and supports others
- Values the input and expertise of colleagues, encouraging them to express their views and ideas
- Trusts and supports colleagues, seeking common ground to strengthen working relationships
- Assumes positive intent, resolving differences with others to achieve ‘win-win’ outcomes for colleagues and customers
- Willingly shares knowledge and expertise with others
- Adapts personal behavioural style to work more effectively with colleagues and customers
G3 - Tailors and structures communication to specific audiences to engage and inspire
- Communicates clear objectives, expectations and purpose for the team, supporting them in taking ownership
- Presents ideas logically, concisely and persuasively, adapting content and style for the audience, using relevant and accurate data
- Communicates in a manner consistent with LRQA values and stays professional when challenged
- Encourages positive, open and 2-way discussion, demonstrating empathy, rapport and fairness
- Is approachable, fully involves others in decisions and ideas when appropriate, gaining commitment and trust
G3 - Ensures professional competence and shares knowledge with others
- Is enthusiastic about sharing knowledge and experience with others
- Pursues appropriate learning, development and feedback opportunities to enhance own performance
- Keeps up to date with specific technical/professional/functional skills and knowledge
- Maintains awareness of latest legislation, regulation and standards and updates relevant qualifications/CPD requirements
- Regularly reviews and updates their own PDP, supporting and encouraging others in their personal/career development
G3 - Considers the wider picture and brings this understanding to bear on decisions / actions
- Translates wider LRQA strategy into clear goals, priorities and expectations for the task/project/team
- Takes time to consider the broad implications and context of specific issues and actions
- Considers wider organisational priorities when making decisions and setting own priorities
- Able to navigate through a range of issues to define a clear way forward
- Questions the conventional, thinks laterally, considers ‘what if scenarios’
G3 - Takes a commercial view when making decisions and taking action
- Demonstrates an understanding of how key decisions and strategies affect the top and bottom line
- Considers cost implications and benefits of actions and decisions with awareness of budget
- Balances time, cost and quality variables without compromising on health and safety
- Uses resources effectively and identifies appropriate alternatives /efficiencies
- Initiates improvements to cut costs, improve efficiencies or seize opportunities
G3 – Assesses problems and develops pragmatic solutions
- Uses effective sources/questions get to the nature of a problem, spotting gaps/flaws in data, information or arguments
- Considers issues from different perspectives, assessing the impact of any solution, thinking beyond own business function
- Encourages others to share, build on, and consider new ideas and ways of solving problems
- Makes well-timed decisions even when some information is unavailable
- Communicates tough business decisions, without blaming others
G3 - Plans and prioritises workload to ensure goals/targets are achieved
- Is well-organised, using structured plans, prioritising and managing time effectively to meet deadlines and targets
- Balances a range of conflicting priorities and tasks to determine the best way forward
- Holds regular team reviews to track goals, giving clear feedback to drive performance and address issues
- Identifies barriers to achievement and actively seeks to minimise them
- Demonstrates a high level of drive, enthusiasm and a positive attitude to work, remaining calm under pressure
We are on a mission to be the place where we all want to work and we are passionate about embracing different perspectives because we understand the value this brings to our business, our clients and each other. We are all about creating a safer and more sustainable future and our inclusive culture is right at the heart of our business.
Together our employees make our communities better and we want you to be part of our diverse team!
LRQA is a leading global assurance provider. The integrity and expertise we bring to our partnership with clients support their journey to a safer, more secure and more sustainable future. ( Group entities ).
Copyright © LRQA 2021. All rights reserved. Terms of use. Privacy Policy.
