Lead Auditor

Babcock International; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Lead Auditor to enhance compliance and quality management frameworks within the UK Military Safety & Assurance Team. This full-time role involves auditing contract sites, developing improvement cultures, and ensuring adherence to safety procedures, with opportunities for hybrid work and significant travel.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Car allowance or company car

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Qualifications

• Engineering background with broad base Aviation QA experience.
• Current Human Factors trained and knowledge of error management methods.
• Working knowledge and use of IT and the Internet.

Responsibilities

• Carry out audits of LAFT 2 contract sites and suppliers.
• Develop and promote a continual improvement culture.
• Ensure compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental procedures.

Skills

Aviation QA experience

Human Factors training

IT and Internet knowledge

Education

Member of the Chartered Quality Institution (CQI)

IRCA Lead Auditor Trained to ISO 9001:2015

Full driving license

Job description

Job Title: Lead Auditor
Location: Sleaford, Lincolnshire
Compensation: £40,000
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63883

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 Lead Auditor at our LAFT sites.

The role
As a Lead Auditor, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Continually improving the excellent compliance and quality management frameworks and to be part of a key function in the UK Military Safety & Assurance Team.

Day-to-day, you'll have the following responsibilities:

• Carry out audits of LAFT 2 contract sites, sub-contractors and suppliers to a pre-approved audit programme.
• Assess, approve, and maintain a list of sub-contractors and suppliers in liaison with the procurement manager.
• Develop and promote a continual improvement culture and deputise for the LAFT 2 Quality Manager in the event of absence.
• Implement business improvement programmes. Including working with LAFT 2 Quality Manager for proposed Exposition amendments
• Ensure Company Health, Safety and Environmental procedures are always implemented and complied with.

This role is full time and can be based at any of our LAFT sites, however our head office is based at RAF Cranwell. This role is also a hybrid role with a mixture of working from home and working onsite at one of our LAFT sites and will therefore require significant travel to achieve the audit plan.

Essential experience of the Lead Auditor:

• Engineering background with broad base Aviation QA experience working with public or private commercial organisations.
• Current Human Factors trained and knowledge of error management methods
• Working knowledge and use of IT and the Internet

Qualifications for the Lead Auditor:

• Member of the Chartered Quality Institution (CQI), or equivalent in experience
• IRCA Lead Auditor Trained to ISO 9001:2015 Standard inc relevant knowledge of CAA & MRP Part 145 and ISO 9001:2015 in an auditing role.
• Full driving license

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
• Car allowance or company car to be provided
• 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
• 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 [e-mail] 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: 29/05/2025

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