Technical Quality Specialist

Job Title:                     Technical Quality Specialist

Location:                     Telford, Shropshire + Travel to other sites

Compensation:            £44,123 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF64125

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 Technical Quality Specialist at our Donnington site.

The role

As a Technical Quality Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a fantastic chance to offer specialised support to engineering, technical, and operational teams, helping resolve product quality and process challenges that may impact efficiency and compliance.

Day-to-day, you’ll offer guidance and assistance to Technical Engineers in conducting ‘triage’ and other quality related investigations, ensuring issues are escalated when necessary. You’ll also:

• Review Non-Conforming Material (NCM) responses as part of the Material Defect Reporting (MDR) process from suppliers and work with them to identify suitable root cause, corrective actions and preventative actions
• Lead the Lean Six Sigma process quality improvement activities as identified
• Maintain and improve non-conformance databases to ensure accurate data capture, provide analysis on non-conformity data to identify and mitigate material risks
• Support the Technical Quality Lead Engineer in the data analysis and review of internal and external stakeholder performance and escalate where required
• Support the Technical Quality Lead Engineer in maintaining and supporting key documentation

Please note that this position involves 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 and is based on site at Donnington.

Essential experience of the Technical Quality Specialist:

• Experience of engagement with Internal, Customer and Supplier Project Teams and Subject Matter Experts.
• Engineering and/or quality experience, preferably in a heavy equipment maintenance, repair and overhaul environment, low volume automotive engineering or remanufacturing.

Qualifications for the Technical Quality Specialist:

• Completed relevant technical or vocational qualification equivalent to NQF Level 3 (Advanced apprenticeship, level 3 NVQ)
• Lead Auditor qualified (ISO 9001:2015) or willing to work towards
• Qualified or experienced Lean Six Sigma practitioner

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Clearance (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: 19/06/2025