Job Description - Quality Leader - Supplier Improvements (00130942)
Quality Leader - Supplier Improvements - 00130942
Job Title: Quality Leader - Supplier Improvements
Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
* Understanding and deploying quality engineering techniques in new programmes
* Supporting meetings to closely embed APQP, PPAP, and FAIR processes for the SSNA Programme
* Presentations within the company including training and coaching sessions on APQP tools and techniques
* Aiding in developing, maintaining, and managing key collaborative relationships in the business both internally and externally
* Assisting senior leaders, Leading & supporting LFE Quality Lessons Learnt forums
Your skills and experiences:
* APQP, PPAP or FAIR experience preferably in a Manufacturing or Engineering environment
* Presentation skills and experience
* Manufacturing / Mechanical / Electrical Engineering / Quality Management experience or Equivalent
* Valid UK Driver’s License (travel within the UK required for this position)
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Supplier Improvement team:
As a member of the Supplier Improvement team, you will primarily work within the SSNA programme. Working collaboratively with functions on site to help support progressing improvements and streamlining processes by the implementation of APQP tools and techniques. Travel will also be required on occasions within the UK. There will be opportunities to meet and build relations with senior stakeholders and develop yourself to progress your career with BAE Systems. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder et c.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please spea k to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export contro l restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the role s you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicant s mus t as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicant s mus t typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the rol e, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 13th October 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the rol e. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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