Career Opportunities: Quality Assurance Engineer (59871)

Job Title:               Quality Assurance Engineer
Location:               Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:     £32,500 - £44,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:             Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                 SF59871

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 Quality Assurance Engineer at our Devonport site.

The role
As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role will have responsibility for assuring that the delivered vehicles meet our expected quality, technical and performance levels.

Day-to-day, you’ll support with the planning and developing of new improved processes to ensure failures are minimised within the vehicle production operation.

• Reviewing and creating processes within the project to assure we fulfil the customer requirements and alignment with the global business management system
• Planning for future projects by understanding the customer requirements and implementing into our process and systems
• Working collaboratively with all operational teams and land projects, ensuring interfaces are working and there is a cohesive approach across the Project Team to establish a culture of collaboration, evaluation and improvement
• Providing quality control guidance to the project team, customer and suppliers

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home. Travel to supplier, and customer sites on an occasional basis may be required.

Essential experience of the Quality Assurance Engineer:

• A team player with a keen eye for detail and a desire to deliver excellence in a demanding high tempo production environment
• Understanding of the customer context and requirements with regards to quality control, assurance, evaluation and improvement
• Excellent interpersonal skills with experience of representing the business at a senior level for both customer and internal key business meetings
• Exceptional engineering skills demonstrating collaborative working and leadership and strong performance management of assigned operatives
• Automotive and/or defence industry experience

Qualifications for the Quality Assurance Engineer:
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) 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: 14/10/2024

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