Job Title:
Senior Quality Inspector – Electrical
Location:
Barrow-in-Furness (Onsite shift-work)
Salary:
Circa £38,000 – depending on skills & experience
What you’ll be doing:
Performing a range of inspections, from routine to complex, ensuring accuracy and quality with limited supervision
Recording outcomes and identifying non-conformances, ensuring effective management to closure
Supporting process reviews of inspection activities to embed a continuous improvement culture
Ensuring contractual quality documentation is generated, verified, and completed
Representing Quality Inspection delivery within the business
Deputising for the Team Leader as required
Your skills and experience:
NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience in this field
Experience working to delivery schedules, with an understanding of how quality contributes to reducing costs
Understanding of SAP
Good communication skills
Proficient with Microsoft Office
Benefits:
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 Electrical Quality Inspector team:
This is an excellent opportunity to join a dedicated team focused on driving quality improvements across both the Astute and Dreadnought programmes, working closely with stakeholders across the site to ensure progress. This is a varied and hands-on role within a small, motivated team that values collaboration and adaptability. 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 etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control 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 roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing date:
28th October 2025.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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