Project Quality Lead

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Dunfermline, Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense engineering firm in Scotland seeks a Project Quality Lead to ensure Missile Tube Assemblies meet the highest quality standards. This full-time role involves leading QA/QC activities, managing supplier assurance, and promoting quality culture. Ideal candidates have proven QA/QC leadership experience, strong communication skills, and relevant qualifications. Hybrid working arrangements are available.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading benefit

Be Kind Day for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in QA/QC leadership roles.
• Demonstrated commitment to Babcock's principles and values.
• Collaborative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Leading the delivery of QA/QC outputs to schedule and budget.
• Managing supply chain assurance and integrity.
• Driving quality governance through audits and corrective actions.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for customer quality teams.
• Promoting a strong quality culture across all levels.

Skills

QA/QC leadership

Team development

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Continuous improvement

Education

HNC in a relevant subject

Membership with the Chartered Quality Institute

Leadership or supervisory qualification

Job description

Overview

Project Quality Lead location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements. Role: Full time / Permanent. Lead Quality Excellence in Defence Engineering. Lead quality activities to ensure Missile Tube Assemblies meet highest standards of quality and compliance, with impact on national defence capabilities, customer satisfaction, and engineering integrity.

The role

As a Project Quality Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the forefront of ensuring our Missile Tube Assemblies meet the highest standards of quality and compliance. This is a pivotal role where your leadership will directly impact national defence capabilities, customer satisfaction, and the integrity of our engineering outputs.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Leading the delivery of QA/QC outputs to schedule and budget
• Managing supply chain assurance and integrity, including supplier assessments and certifications
• Driving quality governance through audits, non-conformance control, and corrective actions
• Acting as the primary point of contact for customer quality teams
• Promoting a strong quality culture across all levels of the organisation

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Friday and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience

• Proven experience in QA/QC leadership roles
• Strong leadership and team development skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
• Demonstrated commitment to Babcock’s principles and values
• Collaborative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement

Qualifications

• HNC in a relevant subject (minimum requirement)
• Membership with the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)
• Preferred: Leadership or supervisory qualification

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

• 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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

About Babcock

Babcock International: For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [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.

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