Senior Quality Engineer
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol
Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
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 Ashton Vale, Bristol site.
The Role
As a Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our mission to deliver high-quality, mission-critical products and services to our defence customers. This is your opportunity to make a real impact—ensuring that everything we deliver meets the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance. You’ll be part of a collaborative Quality team embedded within our Programme Delivery and Manufacturing functions, helping to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Day to day you’ll be required to:
* Collaborate with production teams to ensure timely, cost-effective delivery of products and services.
* Manage the non-conformance process, driving root cause analysis and preventative actions.
* Oversee and sign off delivery processes to assure customer requirements are met.
* Analyse and report on quality performance data to support ‘right first time’ outcomes.
* Lead investigations into quality issues using tools like 8D, FMEA, and 5 Whys.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashton Vale, Bristol.
Essential Experience of the Senior Quality Engineer
* Proven experience in a quality engineering role within a relevant industry.
* Strong understanding of quality across the full product or service lifecycle.
* Hands-on experience auditing ISO 9001 quality management systems.
* Demonstrated success in implementing quality improvements and cultural change.
* Proficiency in quality tools and problem-solving techniques (e.g. APQP, Pareto, FMEA, 8D).
Qualifications for the Senior Quality Engineer
* ISO 9001 Auditor qualification preferred (training can be provided).
* ONC, HNC, or NVQ Level 3 in a quality, science, or engineering discipline desirable.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer
* 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 UK Babcock 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
Babcock International is a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Babcock is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
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