Vehicle Quality Control Technician

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global defense and engineering firm is seeking a Vehicle Quality Control Technician at its Devonport site. The role involves ensuring vehicle quality and compliance with specifications, requiring HGV maintenance experience and attention to detail. This full-time position offers a competitive salary starting from £34,900 and various employee benefits including a pension scheme and health consultations.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Volunteering leave

Holiday Trading

Professional fees payment

Excellent development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in vehicle maintenance, assembly, inspection and testing.
• Competent use of PC with MS Office packages.
• Ability to work effectively in a high-tempo production environment.

Responsibilities

• Inspect vehicle parts and monitor build activities.
• Conduct audits and provide quality assurance.
• Ensure compliance with technical specifications.

Skills

HGV/PCV vehicle maintenance

Quality assurance

Attention to detail

Collaboration

PC competency (MS Office)

Education

CAT C HGV Driving Licence

Job description

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Vehicle Quality Control Technician

Location:

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Vehicle Quality Control Technician

Compensation: From £34,900 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64363

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 Vehicle Quality Control Technician at our Devonport site.

The role

As a Vehicle Quality Control Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for ensuring that delivered vehicles meet our expected standards for quality, technical specifications, and performance.

Day-to-day, you'll inspect vehicle parts, monitor build activities, and assess pulse line performance to ensure the final product meets defined requirements and acceptance criteria. You'll also ensure that our systems, policies, and practices comply with customer expectations, regulatory standards, and internal business requirements. You’ll also:

• Working collaboratively with all operational teams, ensuring interfaces are working and there is a cohesive approach across the Project Team to establish a culture of collaboration, evaluation and improvement.
• Providing quality assurance and where required, audit support to procurement and supply chain to effect a robust, risk-based Supplier Audit program and support Supplier Selection, Contract Let and Supplier Management activities
• Functional performance of vehicle and all systems and dimensional and assembly inspection
• Conduct thorough review of the vehicle build quality assurance documents, validating content against the technical specification requirements.
• Review supplier certification for compliance

This role is full time , 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Quality Control Technician:

• Demonstrable experience and success in HGV/PCV vehicle maintenance, assembly, inspection and test roles
• Competent PC user (MS Office packages)
• A team player with a keen eye for detail and a desire to deliver excellence in a demanding high tempo production environment

Qualifications for the Vehicle Quality Control Technician:

• CAT C HGV Driving Licence as a minimum

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be 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

• 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. 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [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.

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