Job Title: Vehicle Quality Inspector
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: From £33,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72372
Bring Your Commercial Skills to Projects That Help Create A Safer World
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 Inspector at our Walsall, West Midlands site.
The role
As a Vehicle Quality Inspector you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll ensure that every vehicle leaving our production line meets the highest standards of safety, performance, and customer satisfaction. This role is central to maintaining the quality and reliability our customers depend on—enabling the defence, aerospace and engineering sectors to operate with confidence. It’s a chance to grow your technical expertise while contributing to work that genuinely matters.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Inspect vehicles at multiple stages of production and at final build.
- Record inspection findings accurately using build packs, check sheets and test reports.
- Complete dispatch packs and ensure all quality documentation is up to date.
- Deliver independent inspections to meet customer expectations.
- Carry out duties in line with performance targets and customer deadlines.
You’ll work 39 hours per week, based onsite at Walsall, West Midlands. Set working times are Monday–Thursday 8:00–17:00 and Friday 8:00–12:00. Overtime opportunities are also available.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Quality Inspector:
- Strong understanding of vehicle specifications.
- Passion for and deep knowledge of vehicles.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Clear verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
Qualifications for the Vehicle Quality Inspector:
- We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / 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. 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 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
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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. 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: 08/04/2026
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