Job Title: Project Quality Engineer
Location: Bristol, UK – Hybrid – working from home options available
Compensation: Competitive salary + benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 48844

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 Project Quality Engineer at our Ashton House site.

The role

The Project Quality Engineer is based within our Mission Systems. Mission Systems enable our customers to deliver their mission, through our products and solutions, using intelligence and analysis and delivering critical communication services. Our aim is to be at the centre of our customers’ modern digital backbone by connecting and delivering sensors, decision support, and air effectors across military and business domains.

As a Project Quality Engineer, you’ll support the delivery of one of our most important contracts on time, to the right quality and to the planned cost. You’ll be part of a Project Quality team that sits within the Programme Delivery team.

Day to day, you will provide advice, guidance and support to the business on all matters related to quality, ensuring outputs meet customer and regulatory requirements in a timely manner.

  • Represent the customer’s interests and help to maintain the open and collaborative relationship we have. Speak regularly with the customer quality representative.
  • Provide quality input and advice through the product lifecycle
  • Identify quality risk and work to mitigate, manage and escalate to programme leadership
  • Participate in the non-conformance process, driving root cause analysis and prevention where appropriate
  • Oversee progress and sign-off on completion of the delivery process to give the customer assurance their requirements have been met
  • Collect, analyse and report on quality performance data
  • Quality planning in Production and Supply Chain to drive a Right-First-Time culture
  • Lead investigations into quality escapes, managing through to preventative action using suitable tools and techniques.

    • Experience for the Project Quality Engineer:

    This exciting opportunity will suit someone who is a dynamic, diligent, and tenacious team player who has a background and interest in the improvement of how we implement quality in an organisation.

  • A proficient quality assurance engineer with considerable practical, hands-on experience in a related industry and be familiar with how quality applies throughout a product or service delivery lifecycle.
  • Previous customer-facing roles or experience is beneficial
  • Experience of implementing quality improvements and encouraging culture change within an organisation.
  • 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 of the Project Quality Engineer role,

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

    • We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 day in the office and 4 days working from home. You must be willing to travel to Tewkesbury and Plymouth as and when required to meet business needs.

    You must have SC clearance with the ability to obtain DV status.

    Our Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • 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

    • For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

    Babcock International

    For over 130 years Babcock International have 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.

    If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.