Senior Quality Engineer

weServed; Walsall; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP and annual health check

Nutritional consultations via Aviva

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading option

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer in Walsall to uphold and enhance quality across defence-enabled programmes. You will lead investigations, develop QA plans, and collaborate with engineering, manufacturing and customer teams to ensure robust quality performance.

The role emphasizes ISO 9001 compliance, continuous improvement, and hands-on involvement with both production and audit activities. On-site with a 37.5-hour week, offering comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a quality engineer in automotive manufacturing.
• Experience auditing ISO 9001 quality management systems.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking investigations into quality issues and developing effective quality plans.
• Implementing quality solutions that support new business opportunities and project delivery.
• Collaborating with internal teams, suppliers and government customers to maintain quality standards.
• Developing, implementing and monitoring quality assurance processes and procedures.
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, process optimisation and operational efficiency.

Skills

Quality engineering

ISO 9001

FMEA

SPC

PPAP

MSA

APQP

8D problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

ISO/TS 16949 qualification knowledge

Tools

Quality auditing

Job description

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation: From £52,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract 12 months

Role ID: SF76448

Help Shape Quality Standards That Protect Lives and Support National Security

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Engineer at Walsall, near Birmingham, West Midlands.

The role

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. From supporting police fleets to contributing to armoured military vehicles designed to protect lives, your work will directly support national defence and public safety. This is an opportunity to develop your technical expertise, influence quality performance across multiple programmes and collaborate with experienced engineering, manufacturing and customer teams in a highly respected defence and engineering organisation.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Undertaking investigations into quality issues and developing effective quality plans
• Implementing quality solutions that support new business opportunities and project delivery
• Collaborating with internal teams, suppliers and government customers to maintain quality standards
• Developing, implementing and monitoring quality assurance processes and procedures
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, process optimisation and operational efficiency

The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday with an early finish on Fridays, totalling 37.5 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Engineer:

• Proven experience in a Quality Engineering role within automotive manufacturing
• Experience leading quality assurance and quality control activities in low and/or high-volume production environments
• Strong understanding of automotive quality standards, customer requirements and continuous improvement methodologies
• Experience working with and auditing against ISO 9001 quality management systems.
• Proficiency in quality tools including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Statistical Process Control, Production Part Approval Process, Measurement Systems Analysis, Advanced Product Quality Planning and Eight Disciplines problem solving

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Engineer:

• Degree in Engineering, Quality Management or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
• ISO/TS 16949 qualification or demonstrable knowledge and application

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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

• 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 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 03/11/2026