Quality Technician

Babcock International; Walsall; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Walsall seeks a Quality Technician to ensure excellence across production facilities. This full-time role involves supporting audits, investigating product issues, and maintaining quality standards. The ideal candidate should possess an engineering background and strong skills in data analysis and Microsoft Office. Join us for an opportunity to develop your career while contributing to national security.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading option

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and tolerances.
• Skilled in data analysis and trend chart creation.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Background in engineering or manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Supporting production with scheduled audits and documentation reviews.
• Investigating and reporting product issues using 4C and 8D methodologies.
• Managing non-conformance throughout the build process.
• Ensuring accurate completion of documentation and final inspection.
• Developing and maintaining quality standards.

Skills

Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings

Skilled in data analysis

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Background in engineering or manufacturing

Education

Relevant engineering or quality-related qualification

Equivalent experience in a quality or inspection role

Job description

Job Title: Quality Technician

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation: Up to £32,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67964

Play Your Part in Creating a Safer World

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 Technician at our Walsall site.

The role

As a Quality Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of ensuring excellence across our production facilities. Your work will help maintain the highest standards of quality and compliance, supporting projects that make a real difference to national security and public safety. This is an opportunity to develop your career in engineering and defence while contributing to something bigger.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Supporting production with scheduled audits and documentation reviews.
• Investigating and reporting product issues using 4C and 8D methodologies.
• Managing non-conformance throughout the build process and raising interventions on Q-Pulse.
• Ensuring accurate completion of documentation and final inspection before product release.
• Developing and maintaining quality standards to support production.

This role is full time, 39 hours per week Monday to Friday and is based on site at Walsall.

Essential experience of the Quality Technician:

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and tolerances.
• Skilled in data analysis and trend chart creation.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Background in engineering or manufacturing.

Qualifications for the Quality Technician:

• Relevant engineering or quality-related qualification (preferred).
• Equivalent experience in a quality or inspection role will be considered.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain

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 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: 08/12/2025