Quality Practitioner

Job Title:              Quality Practitioner
Location:              Bordon, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits 
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF58322

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 Quality Practitioner at our Oakhanger site.

The Role
As a Quality Practitioner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be instrumental in ensuring quality processes are implemented and upheld across the site.  

Day-to-day, you’ll be at the heart of ensuring that one of our most important contracts is delivered to the highest standards:

• Be the driving force behind quality assurance for infrastructure projects
• Provide expert gudance and support to the project team, ensuring quality standards are met
• Continuously analyse and improve project workflows to maximise efficiency and minimise errors
• Proactively identify potential quality issues and develop strategies to prevent them and work to mitigate and manage
• Attend delivery review boards 
• This position may involve travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, with a hybrid working arrangement. Three days per week at our Oakhanger site, and the remainder working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. 

Experience required of the Quality Practitioner

• Knowledge of ISO9001 Quality Management System
• Experience around process improvement 
• Knowledge of quality tools (beneficial)
• Experience gained within a related industry 

Qualifications for the Quality Practitioner

• HNC or equivalent in engineering, quality or other relevant subject 
• CQI membership beneficial 
• ISO 9001 Auditor preferred but not essential 

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.

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. 

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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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