Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £49, - £61, (Pro Rata)
Role Type: Full Time / Fixed Term Contract (6 Months)
Role ID: SF
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 Assurance Engineer at our Devonport site.
The Role
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be responsible for ensuring quality relating to the production of bespoke military vehicles.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for providing assurance at all levels of the business that the quality management system and associated policies and processes have been effectively implemented.
1. Responsible for maintaining the audit programme including all internal, external and joint audits
2. Produce quality assurance reports as required by the project
3. Provide support to all business functions in creating and maintaining self assessment calendars and checklists
4. Reacting to events that present engineering, quality or output risk
5. Support root cause analysis and facilitating quality working groups
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per and provides hybrid working arrangements
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing.
Experience Required of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
6. Demonstrated audit experience
7. Demonstrable experience in quality control, evaluation and improvement
8. Ability to lead problem solving activities utilising industry standard methodologies
9. Practical knowledge of quality management standards including ISO
Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
10. Educated to Level 2 or above
11. Lead Auditor qualification beneficial but not essential
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC)
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at .
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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
19. ‘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
20. Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.