Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:

Walsall, West Midlands

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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

• Degree in engineering, quality management or a related field or equivalent experience

The successful candidate must be able to achieve a Security Check (SC) and NPPV security clearance for this role.

MOST positions are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Eligibility may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, citizenship and residency.

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one week of annual leave from their statutory entitlement (available February through March)
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid day a year for volunteering with a chosen charity
• Excellent development opportunities and an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. We continue to adapt, advance and aim for sustainability.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email car with the subject ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.