Senior Quality Engineer

Job Title:                     Senior Quality Engineer

Location:                     Ashton Vale, Bristol

Compensation:            Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF67218

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 Senior Quality Engineer at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our mission to deliver high-quality, mission-critical products and services to our defence customers. This is your opportunity to make a real impact—ensuring that everything we deliver meets the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance. You’ll be part of a collaborative Quality team embedded within our Programme Delivery and Manufacturing functions, helping to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Day to day you’ll be required to:

• Collaborate with production teams to ensure timely, cost-effective delivery of products and services.
• Manage the non-conformance process, driving root cause analysis and preventative actions.
• Oversee and sign off delivery processes to assure customer requirements are met.
• Analyse and report on quality performance data to support ‘right first time’ outcomes.
• Lead investigations into quality issues using tools like 8D, FMEA, and 5 Whys.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashton Vale, Bristol.

Essential Experience of the Senior Quality Engineer

• Proven experience in a quality engineering role within a relevant industry.
• Strong understanding of quality across the full product or service lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience auditing ISO 9001 quality management systems.
• Demonstrated success in implementing quality improvements and cultural change.
• Proficiency in quality tools and problem-solving techniques (e.g. APQP, Pareto, FMEA, 8D).

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Engineer

• ISO 9001 Auditor qualification preferred (training can be provided).
• ONC, HNC, or NVQ Level 3 in a quality, science, or engineering discipline desirable.

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 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.

Closing Date: 17/10/2025

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