Vehicle Quality Control Technician

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A top engineering and defense contractor in Plymouth is seeking a Vehicle Quality Control Technician to ensure delivered vehicles meet quality and performance standards. This full-time role requires demonstrable success in vehicle maintenance and an HGV driving license. The position offers generous benefits, including holiday allowance and health consulting.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

Volunteering paid leave

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in HGV/PCV vehicle maintenance and inspection.
• Competent PC user with proficiency in MS Office packages.
• Team player with a keen eye for detail and excellence.

Responsibilities

• Inspect vehicle parts and monitor build activities.
• Provide quality assurance and audit support to procurement.
• Conduct thorough review of vehicle build quality assurance documents.

Skills

HGV/PCV vehicle maintenance

Assembly

Inspection

Attention to detail

Education

CAT C HGV Driving Licence

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Title: Vehicle Quality Control Technician

Location: Plymouth, Devon

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

• 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 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 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: 01/08/2025

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