Shape global quality standards in a world-leading engineering consultancy. Join Buro Happold as a Quality and Compliance Engineer.
This person can be based in our Bath or London office on a hybrid working model.
At Buro Happold, we are driven by a passion for creating sustainable, innovative solutions for the built environment. We are currently seeking an Interim Quality & Compliance Engineer to join our Global QHSE team on a fixed term 9–12 month maternity cover contract.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work at a global level, supporting the coordination and continuous improvement of our Integrated Management System (IMS) across more than 20 international offices.
About The Role
As a Quality & Compliance Engineer, you will play a key role in maintaining and strengthening our global certification programmes. Acting as a central coordinator, you will help ensure our systems remain robust, compliant, and audit-ready while supporting collaboration across regions and disciplines.
You will also support the strategic relationship with our external certification/notified bodies, helping to shape future certification approaches as our global operations continue to evolve.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support global ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 certification activities across multiple international offices.
- Act as a liaison with our external certification/notified body on audit planning, multi-site certification strategy, and future certification developments (e.g., PAS 2080, BIM/ISO 19650).
- Maintain audit schedules, certification records, scope registers, and readiness trackers.
- Coordinate internal and external audits and ensure clear communication with global office contacts.
- Track non-conformities and corrective actions, ensuring timely closure and escalation where required.
- Identify trends and recurring issues across the IMS and support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support offices undergoing operational changes (such as relocations) to maintain quality, environmental, and health & safety compliance.
- Prepare documentation, evidence packs, and programme-level reporting for the Global QHSE team.
About You:
- Experience working with ISO-based management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001).
- Strong coordination, documentation, and programme management skills.
- The ability to work effectively across regions, time zones, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Confident communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with external certification bodies (desirable).
- Familiarity with the engineering, consultancy, or built environment sector (beneficial).
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.
What we Offer You:
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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