Senior Quality Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Bristol; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm located in Bristol is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer. You will be responsible for ensuring high-quality delivery of products and driving continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has proven experience in quality engineering, especially with ISO 9001 standards. Benefits include a matched pension scheme, digital health care access, and other perks. This role requires security clearance and is full-time.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a quality engineering role within a relevant industry.
• Strong understanding of quality across the product or service lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience auditing quality management systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with production teams to ensure delivery of products.
• Manage non-conformance process with root cause analysis.
• Analyse quality performance data for improvement.

Skills

Quality engineering experience

Auditing ISO 9001

Problem-solving techniques

Education

ISO 9001 Auditor qualification

ONC, HNC, or NVQ Level 3 in a relevant discipline

Tools

8D

FMEA

Job description

Senior Quality Engineer

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 Senior Quality Engineer at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our mission to deliver high-quality, mission-critical products and services to our defence customers. This is your opportunity to make a real impact—ensuring that everything we deliver meets the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance. You’ll be part of a collaborative Quality team embedded within our Programme Delivery and Manufacturing functions, helping to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Day to day you’ll be required to:

• Collaborate with production teams to ensure timely, cost-effective delivery of products and services.
• Manage the non-conformance process, driving root cause analysis and preventative actions.
• Oversee and sign off delivery processes to assure customer requirements are met.
• Analyse and report on quality performance data to support ‘right first time’ outcomes.
• Lead investigations into quality issues using tools like 8D, FMEA, and 5 Whys.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashton Vale, Bristol.

Essential Experience of the Senior Quality Engineer

• Proven experience in a quality engineering role within a relevant industry.
• Strong understanding of quality across the full product or service lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience auditing ISO 9001 quality management systems.
• Demonstrated success in implementing quality improvements and cultural change.
• Proficiency in quality tools and problem-solving techniques (e.g. APQP, Pareto, FMEA, 8D).

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Engineer

• ISO 9001 Auditor qualification preferred (training can be provided).
• ONC, HNC, or NVQ Level 3 in a quality, science, or engineering discipline desirable.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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.
• ‘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 is 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]. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Babcock is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.