Job Title: Vehicle Quality Control Technician
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: From £34, Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
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 Vehicle Quality Control Technician at our Devonport site.
The role
As a Vehicle Quality Control Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for ensuring that delivered vehicles meet our expected standards for quality, technical specifications, and performance.
Day-to-day, you'll inspect vehicle parts, monitor build activities, and assess pulse line performance to ensure the final product meets defined requirements and acceptance criteria. You'll also ensure that our systems, policies, and practices comply with customer expectations, regulatory standards, and internal business requirements. You’ll also:
1. Working collaboratively with all operational teams, ensuring interfaces are working and there is a cohesive approach across the Project Team to establish a culture of collaboration, evaluation and improvement.
2. Providing quality assurance and where required, audit support to procurement and supply chain to effect a robust, risk-based Supplier Audit program and support Supplier Selection, Contract Let and Supplier Management activities
3. Functional performance of vehicle and all systems and dimensional and assembly inspection
4. Conduct thorough review of the vehicle build quality assurance documents, validating content against the technical specification requirements.
5. Review supplier certification for compliance
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Quality Control Technician:
6. Demonstrable experience and success in HGV/PCV vehicle maintenance, assembly, inspection and test roles
7. Competent PC user (MS Office packages)
8. A team player with a keen eye for detail and a desire to deliver excellence in a demanding high tempo production environment
Qualifications for the Vehicle Quality Control Technician:
9. CAT C HGV Driving Licence as a minimum
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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. Further details are available at .
What we offer
10. Generous holiday allowance
11. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
12. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
13. Employee share scheme
14. Employee shopping savings portal
15. Payment of Professional Fees
16. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
17. 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.
18. ‘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
19. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.