Projects Quality Manager
Location: Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port
Employment Type: Site Based Full Time Role 5 days per week Monday-Friday
EET (Essar Energy Transition) vision is to be the leading producer of low carbon fuels and establish a blueprint energy transition hub in the North West. EET plays a major role in supplying the Northwest and the wider UK with essential fuels. We produce over 16% of the UK’s road transport fuels, supply key feedstocks to the petrochemical industry, and are investing heavily in low‑carbon energy solutions.
We work with major retail fuel brands, supermarkets, Manchester Airport, leading airlines, and regional transport operators. We are also a key partner in the HyNet project, helping to deliver the region’s low‑carbon future.
With over 900 skilled colleagues, we offer a strong safety culture, technically challenging work, and some of the best training in the energy sector.
Find out more: Redefining Energy | EET
You will lead the development, certification and delivery of a project-focused Quality Management System (QMS) across a major capital programme, ensuring full alignment with ISO 9001 and ISO 10005 requirements.
This role is central to embedding quality assurance across EPC contractors, international suppliers and third-party inspection bodies, ensuring all deliverables meet contractual, regulatory and notified body standards.
Key responsibilities include:
You will also contribute to supplier development, lessons learned and cost-of-poor-quality reduction, using structured improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma.
You are an experienced quality leader with experience of being involved in large scale, high value projects, ideally in energy, oil & gas, hydrogen or other regulated industries.
You bring a proven ability to build and implement ISO-aligned quality systems in complex, multi-contractor environments, with strong oversight of both project delivery and supply chain quality.
You will demonstrate:
You are comfortable operating at both strategic and delivery level, engaging senior stakeholders while ensuring rigorous quality execution across projects.
A relevant degree and progress toward or achievement of Chartered Quality Professional status are expected.
This vacancy will be advertised for a minimum period of two weeks and will remain open to applications until an offer has been made and accepted. Therefore, the vacancy may close at any time after 23rd September 2026, and we encourage interested candidates to apply as early as possible.
EET Fuels - Performing today transforming for tomorrow! Playing a key role in the decarbonisation of the UK economy, with ambitious plans to build an energy transition cluster in the North West of England.
Stanlow is a key strategic national asset, annually producing over 16% of the UK’s road transport fuels, while playing an important part in Britain’s petrochemical industry by providing key feedstocks.
The business is a major supplier in the North West and beyond with customers including most of the major retail brands operated by international oil companies and supermarkets, Manchester Airport, leading commercial airlines and the region’s trains and buses.
The business covers crude and product trading, refinery operations, HSE implementation, maintenance support and technological services, together with marketing and retail activities. Our commitment to maintaining safe and healthy working conditions and following the best operating practices to protect the environment underpins everything we do.
We employ over 900 highly trained and loyal staff, who are at the heart of everything we do. The company has an embedded safety culture, technically challenging work across the different parts of the business and some of the best training available in the energy industry.
In FY2017-18, Essar Oil UK reported revenues of $5.4 billion, and a post-tax profit of $161 million. Since acquiring Stanlow in July 2011, Essar has invested over $870 million in the business. The Board has a strategic focus to further improve the financial performance of the company through the continued growth and development of the business in the UK and beyond.
