Senior Quality Engineer

weServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to shape quality across our major programmes at Ashton Vale, near Bristol. You will work within a Project Quality team, guiding outputs to meet customer and regulatory requirements with a focus on continuous improvement.

You’ll engage with internal teams and customers, drive quality performance, and contribute to future opportunities, with hybrid working and 37 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Experience in applying quality across product/service delivery lifecycle.
• Experience implementing quality improvements and driving culture change.
• Experience auditing ISO 9001 management systems.

Responsibilities

• Represent customer interests and maintain open, collaborative relationships.
• Oversee progress and sign-off delivery to assure requirements are met.
• Collect, analyse and report on quality performance data.
• Lead investigations into quality escapes and drive preventative actions.
• Contribute quality expertise to bids and proposals.

Skills

Quality assurance

Quality improvement

Problem solving

Auditing

Customer-facing

Education

ONC/HNC/NVQ Level 3 in quality/engineering

Tools

Pareto

FMEA

5 Why's

8D

Job description

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74319

Shape quality that protects the nation

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 Ashton Vale, near Bristol.

Join our Mission Systems team and be part of a dynamic environment delivering critical solutions across defence, aerospace and engineering. This is your opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that support national security while developing your career in a forward-thinking organisation.

The role

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the highest standards of quality across one of our most important programmes. Working within a collaborative Project Quality team, you’ll provide expert guidance to ensure outputs meet customer and regulatory requirements on time, every time.

This is a varied and highly visible role where you’ll engage with internal teams and customers, influence quality performance, and drive continuous improvement. You’ll gain exposure to complex engineering programmes, enhancing your professional growth while making a real impact.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Represent the customer’s interests and help to maintain the open and collaborative relationship we have.
• Oversee progress and sign-off the delivery process to give the customer assurance their requirements have been met
• Collect, analyse and report on quality performance data
• Lead investigations into quality escapes, managing through to preventative action using suitable tools and techniques.
• Provide Quality expertise into future business opportunities (bids and proposals)

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 to 2 days onsite although, there may be occasions to work onsite more depending on business needs.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Engineer

• A proficient quality assurance engineer with experience in a related industry and be familiar with how quality applies throughout a product or service delivery lifecycle.
• Experience of implementing quality improvements and encouraging culture change within a team or organisation whilst in a customer facing role.
• Experience of auditing quality ISO9001 management systems.
• An excellent working knowledge of quality tools and problem-solving techniques, and be able to provide guidance to others in their use (e.g. Pareto, FMEA, 5 why’s, 8D, etc.)
• Knowledge of continuous improvement tools and able to give examples of how you have used them in previous situations.

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Engineer

• ONC, HNC or NVQ Level 3 qualification in a quality, science, engineering discipline
• Experience in ISO 9001 auditor
• Membership of a recognised quality institute e.g. CQI is desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 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 the majority of 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 14/10/2026

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