Accreditation Quality Manager

Job ID: 39615
Location: Athens : 348 Syggrou Avenue  
Position Category: Quality Assurance
Position Type: Employee Regular

Title : Accreditation Quality Manager
Lloyd’s Register

Location: Fully remote work.

Embark on a career where your expertise in quality management will drive our success and reputation. Join us as an Accreditation Quality Manager and make a lasting impact!
Do not wait! Just apply, and become a part of Lloyd’s Register!

What we’re looking for  

To ensure that the organization adheres to international standards, regulations, and best practices required for accreditation within the maritime industry, and these are maintained over time.

What we offer you  

• Competitive Salary
• Hybrid Working
• The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose, is values-driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programs.

The role  

• Manage the accreditation process for LR entities, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory bodies and industry standards. This includes overseeing, coordinating, evaluating, and responding to business requests for new or revised appointments that should be held by LR entities.
• Acting as subject matter expert for all group personnel in respect of interpretation of requirements related to LR’s accreditations and notifications, providing guidance, support, and training as needed.
• Acting as representative to top management on the performance of the management system and any need for improvement
• To provide specialist knowledge within the accreditations landscape and to assess multi-discipline complex problems for external and internal clients to determine a range of alternative solutions, where previous experience does not provide any precedent.
• Responsible for implementation of a suitable process to identify potential risks to impartiality and develop mitigation plans to minimize or eliminate those risks.
• Lead, in collaboration with key accreditation members, the development of required training with the objective of achieving a consistent level of competence and knowledge in the staff in maintaining appropriate accreditation, notification, and authorization schemes knowledge across LR.
• Develop, implement, and maintain the Quality Manual(s) and monitor its effective implementation, to uphold organizational standards and enhance service delivery.
• Establish, in collaboration with key accreditation members and other key stakeholders, metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor quality outcomes and identify areas for improvement.
• Managing the external audit process from the reception of the audit request until all findings are closed. This includes coordinating accreditation audits, preparing documentation, facilitating communication with external and internal participants, and facilitate accreditation renewal processes in a timely manner, as applicable.
• Responsible, in collaboration with stakeholders, for participating and resource adequately in internal audits, addressing findings, and implementing required actions in a timely manner.
• To pursue Continuous Professional Development by staying updated on accreditation requirements, changes, guidelines, and best practices to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Eliminate or minimize employee exposure to risks by reviewing, regularly, the health and safety risk register, applying appropriate controls, communicating results of risk assessment, and ensuring health and safety are considered in the planning and execution of all LR activities.
• Manage your own and your team's compliance with health and safety rules, instructions, systems, and legal requirements, ensuring 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, take appropriate corrective and preventative action as necessary, and suggest and implement improvement activities.

This role profile is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities. You will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your line manager and the overall business objectives of LR.

What you bring  

 

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required (e.g. Quality Management, Maritime Studies, Engineering.)
• Certification in Quality management (ISO 9001 Lead Auditor) and Business Improvement tool(s) are highly desirable, e.g. Kaizen, Lean, and Six Sigma.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in quality assurance, accreditation, or regulatory compliance roles within the maritime industry.
• Strong knowledge of accreditation standards, regulations, and best practice
• Experience in designing and delivering training would be an advantage
• Ability to communicate effectively at different levels with internal stakeholders and to influence successfully and openly at all levels
• Proven track record of successful building relationships with accrediting agencies, regulatory bodies, and other external stakeholders
• Good influencing and motivational skills demonstrated through facilitating services to others.
• Strong ability in data analysis, and being able to interpret data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.
• Adaptable and well-organized with a practical-minded approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively

  About us  

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration, and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.  

Want to apply  

We hire people with a wide variety of skills, experience, and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, women, people identifying as LGBTIQIA+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers, and other varied groups.  

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.  

If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy.  

  We care, we share, we do the right thing.  

If the above matches your field of interest and your qualifications, please apply online as soon as possible - by the latest 15.07.2024.

We conduct ongoing interviews and close the position once the right person has been found.

All inquiries are treated confidentially.

Please note: We do amend or withdraw our job and reserve the right to do so at any time including prior to the advertised closing date.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at [email protected] and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

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