Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Create a safer, more secure world with a career that shapes the future
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Walsall, near Birmingham, West Midlands.
The role
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will help strengthen quality standards across a diverse range of specialist vehicle conversion projects. From supporting police fleets to contributing to armoured military vehicles designed to protect lives, your work will directly support national defence and public safety. This role will expand your technical capability while enabling you to influence quality performance across the team.
Day to day you will be required to:
* Undertake investigations into identified issues and develop quality plans
* Implement solutions for new business opportunities and proposals
* Collaborate with internal teams and government customers
* Develop, implement and monitor quality standards and processes
* Identify opportunities to optimise processes and improve efficiency
The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday with an early finish on Fridays, totalling 37.5 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer:
* Experience in quality control, evaluation and improvement in low or high volume production
* Understanding of customer requirements relating to quality assurance and improvement
* Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings including GD&T
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills
* Proficiency in quality tools including FMEA, SPC, PPAP, MSA and 8D
Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer:
* Degree in engineering, quality management or a related field or equivalent experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and Security Check (SC) and NPPV security clearance for this role.
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.
What we offer
* 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
* ‘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
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer.
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