[ref. c37700704] Senior Quality Engineer

Role ID: SF59761

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Engineer at our Aston Vale, Bristol site.

The Role

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be part of a Project Quality team that sits within the Programme Delivery Team, to support the delivery of one of our most important contracts on time, to the right quality and to the planned cost.

• Represent the customer's interests and help to maintain the open and collaborative relationship we have.
• Provide quality input and advice through the project lifecycle.
• Identify quality risk and work to mitigate, manage and escalate issues to programme leadership.
• Manage non-conformance process, driving root cause analysis and prevention where appropriate.
• Oversee progress and sign-off the delivery process to give the customer assurance their requirements have been met.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the onsite and 3 days working from home. However, you will be required to be onsite more days if needed.

• A proficient quality assurance engineer with experience in a related industry and be familiar with how quality applies throughout a product or service delivery lifecycle.
• Previous experience of a customer-facing role.
• Experience of implementing quality improvements and encouraging culture change within a team or organisation.
• Experience of auditing quality ISO9001 management systems.
• An excellent working knowledge of quality tools and problem-solving techniques, and be able to provide guidance to others in their use (e.g. Pareto, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), 5 why's, 8D, etc.)

• Membership of a recognised quality institute e.g. CQI would be desirable.
• ISO 9001 auditor preferable but training can be provided.
• ONC, HNC or NVQ Level 3 qualification in a quality, science, engineering discipline.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 28/10/2024

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