Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer - APQP Lead
Location: Bristol, UK
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61612
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 - APQP Lead at our Bristol site within Mission Systems Business area.
The role
Babcock is a trusted provider of integrated solutions for global defence and security. We have a wide portfolio of best-in-class intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, communications, and weapons launch and handling solutions across all domains, integrating the best of industry to meet our customers’ needs.
As a Senior Quality Engineer - APQP Lead, 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.
Day to day, you will provide advice, guidance and support to the business on all matters related to quality with a focus on APQP implementation, 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.
- Work cross functionally to implement Advanced Product Quality Planning to a Major Engineering Programme.
- Act as a Subject Matter expert for APQP within the Programme Delivery team.
- Identify effective methods of complying with principles of APQP, supporting the business to tailor where appropriate based on risk.
- Conduct GAP analysis and make recommendations on techniques for improving adherence to APQP methodology and oversee progress and sign-off the delivery process to give the customer assurance their requirements have been met.
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.
Essential experience of the Senior Quality Engineer - APQP Lead
- 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.
- Experience of implementing APQP and encouraging culture change within a team or organisation.
- Experience applying APQP in a complex programme would be beneficial.
- 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, MSA, 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
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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘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 International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing Date: 11/02/2025
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