Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

BAE Systems; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, focusing on ensuring compliance with quality standards across the full lifecycle of aerospace and defense projects. In this role, you'll be responsible for QA processes, auditing, and proactive quality improvements, contributing to the overall success and delivery of high-quality products for national and international customers.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Enhanced annual leave allowance

Share Incentive Plan

Flexible working

Employee assistance programme

Cycle2work

Qualifications

• Good understanding of quality practices and tools.
• Knowledge of aerospace quality standards (e.g., EN9100).
• Strong IT skills, especially with Microsoft applications.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with quality requirements throughout the development lifecycle.
• Conduct First Article Verifications and resolve quality issues.
• Support quality improvements and internal process audits.

Skills

Quality practices

IT literacy

Quality tools and techniques

Education

HNC / HND in Quality or Engineering

Job description

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Job title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Warton or Samlesbury – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £47,683 + depending on experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Ensuring compliance to company, contractual and statutory/regulatory quality requirements is maintained throughout the full development lifecycle
• Operating as the Quality Assurance focal point for Engineering capability teams working within the Design, Development, Test and Evaluation Service Delivery Unit throughout the engineering lifecycle
• Undertaking First Article Verifications and signing Certificates of Conformity on behalf of the business and supporting customer release activities as required across the varied teams
• Effectively conducting the timely investigation and resolution of all reported quality issues and Customer quality concerns associated within the Engineering Capability organisation
• Ensuring quality is effectively supported and reviewed and quality concerns are reported via the specific management review hierarchies
• Supporting the utilisation of business information to identify and proactively drive Quality and business led improvement activities focussed towards improving the quality of our products and services
• Conducting as required to schedule, all internal system / process / product / audits and provision of support to third party certification audits and the timely resolution of all identified non-conformances
  
  

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

• HNC / HND (or equivalent relevant experience) ideally in Quality or an Engineering related discipline
• Good understanding and implementation of Quality practices, tools and techniques
• The knowledge of quality requirements for aerospace and defence contracts (e.g. EN9100, defence regulations and standards)
• Strong IT literacy, especially with Microsoft applications
  
  

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of our Customer Operations and any of the Aircraft platforms we support
  
  

Benefits

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Design Development Test & Evaluation Quality Assurance Team

The BAE Systems Design Development Test & Evaluation (DDT&E) Quality Assurance team, work in close collaboration with our DDT&E Engineering Centres of Excellence to provide Quality Assurance expertise and support to all of our Air Support contracts as well as the development of aircraft equipment, support equipment, data and synthetic training devices.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within this team for a Quality Engineer at a Grade E level. This high tempo and demanding role will be responsible for the assurance and compliance of a number of engineering teams to company, contractual, statutory and regulatory quality requirements relating to the design, development and support of the products and services they provide to our National and International Customers who operate BAE Systems aerospace platforms.

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: 12th June 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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