Senior Quality Engineer

at  Babcock International

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER

• A proficient quality assurance engineer with experience in a related industry and be familiar with how quality applies throughout a product or service delivery lifecycle.
• Previous customer-facing role or experience is beneficial
• Experience of implementing quality improvements and encouraging culture change within a team or organisation.
• Experience of auditing quality ISO9001 management systems.
• An excellent working knowledge of quality tools and problem-solving techniques, and be able to provide guidance to others in their use (e.g. APQP, Pareto, FMEA, 5 why’s, 8D, etc.)
• Knowledge of continuous improvement tools and able to give examples of how you have used them in previous situations.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER - APQP LEAD

• ONC, HNC or NVQ Level 3 qualification in a quality, science, engineering discipline
• Membership of a recognised quality institute e.g. CQI would be desirable.
• ISO 9001 auditor preferable but training can be provided

Day to day, you will provide advice, guidance and support to the business on all matters related to quality, ensuring outputs meet customer and regulatory requirements in a timely manner.

• Represent the customer’s interests and help to maintain the open and collaborative relationship we have.
• Provide quality input and advice through the project lifecycle and Identify quality risk and work to mitigate, manage and escalate issues to programme leadership
• Manage non-conformance process, driving root cause analysis and prevention where appropriate
• Oversee progress and sign-off the delivery process to give the customer assurance their requirements have been met
• Lead investigations into quality escapes, managing through to preventative action using suitable tools and techniques.
• Provide Quality expertise into future business opportunities (bids and proposals

ROLE ID: SF61406

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 Bristol site within Mission Systems Business area.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The key focus of this role is to support the delivery of one of our most important contracts on time, to the right quality and to the planned cost. You’ll be part of a Project Quality team that sits within the Programme Delivery Team. This exciting opportunity will suit someone who is a dynamic, diligent and tenacious team player who has a background and interest in the improvement of how we implement quality in an organisation.

Day to day, you will provide advice, guidance and support to the business on all matters related to quality, ensuring outputs meet customer and regulatory requirements in a timely manner.

• Represent the customer’s interests and help to maintain the open and collaborative relationship we have.
• Provide quality input and advice through the project lifecycle and Identify quality risk and work to mitigate, manage and escalate issues to programme leadership
• Manage non-conformance process, driving root cause analysis and prevention where appropriate
• Oversee progress and sign-off the delivery process to give the customer assurance their requirements have been met
• Lead investigations into quality escapes, managing through to preventative action using suitable tools and techniques.
• Provide Quality expertise into future business opportunities (bids and proposals)

This role is full time 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2-3 days in the office/onsite and days working from home.