Senior Quality Engineer – Hybrid Role in Defence & Aerospace

Babcock International; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health benefits

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer in a hybrid role near Bristol, joining the Mission Systems team to uphold the highest quality standards. You will guide quality across major programmes and collaborate with internal and customer teams to ensure compliance and timely delivery.

You will lead investigations, apply quality tools, and drive continuous improvement, contributing to national security projects while growing professionally in a forward-thinking organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in quality across a product/service delivery lifecycle.
• Experience implementing quality improvements and culture change in customer-facing roles.
• Auditing ISO 9001 quality management systems.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Quality assurance

Customer-facing

Problem-solving

Continuous improvement

Education

ONC/HNC/NVQ Level 3 in quality/science/engineering

ISO 9001 auditor

CQI membership desirable

Tools

Pareto analysis

FMEA

5 Why's

8D

Job description

Babcock is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer in a hybrid role near Bristol, joining the Mission Systems team to uphold the highest quality standards. You will guide quality across major programmes and collaborate with internal and customer teams to ensure compliance and timely delivery.

You will lead investigations, apply quality tools, and drive continuous improvement, contributing to national security projects while growing professionally in a forward-thinking organisation.