Quality Assurance Engineer

BAE Systems; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Quality Assurance Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring quality across Maritime and Land Defence solutions. This position offers an exciting opportunity to lead quality investigations, analyze data, and contribute to operational excellence. With a focus on flexibility and work-life balance, you'll be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values your contributions. Whether you're developing management system documentation or collaborating with cross-functional teams, your impact will be felt across the organization. If you're ready to make a difference, this role is for you.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Green car scheme

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Understanding and application of ISO 9001 / EN9100 standards.
• Experience leading quality investigations and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Conduct Quality investigations and manage non-conformance resolutions.
• Support departmental reviews and liaise with customers as needed.

Skills

ISO 9001 / EN9100 standards

Quality investigations

Root cause analysis

Non-conformance management

Cross functional integration

Job description

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Job Description - Quality Assurance Engineer (00126513)

Job Description

Quality Assurance Engineer - 00126513

Description

Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base.We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £42,000 dependant on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• You will work as a fully contributory member of the Quality team
• Tasked with undertaking specific Quality Assurance activities across Maritime and Land Defence solutions
• This role will require you to undertake non-routine and or complex Quality Assurance activities
• You will be able to access, have a clear understanding of and develop the local Management System documentation e.g. policies, procedures, workmanship standards, risk assessments and processes
• Ensure you have an awareness of Customer Quality conditions
• Support the management of non-conformance resolution and corrective actions with suppliers, key stakeholders and process owners
• You will be responsible for conducting Quality investigations
• The ability to analyse data effectively resulting in themes and corrective actions
• Contribute in working groups ensuring deliverables are achieved and Learning from Experience (LfE) is captured and applied
• Ensure you support departmental reviews and liaise with the customer when required
• The ability to produce written reports and presentations ensuring accuracy and clarity of meaning
• Providing support to Early Careers on rotation through Quality roles

Your skills and experiences:

• Understanding and application of ISO 9001 / EN9100 standards, internal/lead auditor trained
• Experience on leading on quality investigations, root cause analysis and non-conformance management
• Understanding the importance of cross functional integration

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 Maritime and Land Defence Solutions Assurance team:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Maritime & Land Defence Solutions Quality Assurance team.You will be joining a team of professional Quality Engineers providing QA support to in-service Warships. Responsibilities will predominantly include leading Quality Investigations to support improvements in our ways of working as we strive for operational excellence in all that we do. There will also be opportunities for development and growth, working with colleagues across the Quality function supporting projects in Radars, Underwater Weapons, Autonomy, Training and Simulation. You will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, liaising with colleagues within the Quality function as well as senior BAE Systems stakeholders.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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: 22nd May 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.