Principal Quality Engineer - Product Assurance

BAE Systems; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence and aerospace company is looking for a Principal Quality Engineer in Barrow-in-Furness. This role involves managing project tasks, collecting relevant data for informed decisions, and ensuring stakeholder engagement. Candidates should be proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and possess a mechanical engineering qualification. The position offers relocation support and an extensive range of flexible employee benefits.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with Six Sigma methodologies and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) processes.
• Previous experience training or mentoring.
• Significant experience in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Organising and managing project tasks.
• Maintaining communication with team members.
• Collecting and consolidating data for decision-making.

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Stakeholder engagement and collaboration

Understanding of project management principles

Education

Engineering apprenticeship or HNC in mechanical engineering

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Principal Quality Engineer – Product Assurance

Location: Barrow-In-Furness. Onsite

Salary: From £42,215 depending on skills and experience

Responsibilities

• Organising and managing project tasks through Confluence and Jira
• Facilitating ongoing project updates by maintaining communication with team members to ensure alignment, transparency, and timely progress across all deliverables
• Collect and consolidate relevant data from multiple sources to support informed decision-making for department heads
• Organising and analysing data and reporting out in the appropriate forum
• Supporting a rotating team of SMEs (subject matter experts) during their projects

Qualifications

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, with considerable experience in Excel
• Understanding of project management principles and practices
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across all levels
• Engineering apprenticeship or HNC in mechanical engineering
• Previous experience training or mentoring
• Experience with Six Sigma methodologies and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) processes

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The SQA Product Assurance Modernisation team

The SQA (Supplier Quality Assurance) Product Assurance Modernisation is a brand-new team focusing on evolving working methods, processes, systems and management within Product Assurance. This opportunity will put you at the heart of making a real difference to Product Assurance and SQA.We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 8th October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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