Principal Quality Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Quality Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – on site

Salary: From £40,748 – depending on skills and experience   

What you’ll be doing:

• Setting and delivering ambitious quality strategies on a new programme
• Developing new and innovative solutions to long-standing issues
• Leading and supporting major quality improvement projects
• Working with technical leads, supply chain and programme teams to implement improvements
• Using industry recognised toolsets such as Six Sigma (training provided)
• Identifying opportunities for pro-active defect prevention

 Your skills and experiences:

• Experience in driving improvements to completion with proven results
• Knowledge of quality tools including FMEA, Root Cause Analysis, Six Sigma
• Strong Engineering/Manufacturing knowledge, experience or relevant degree
• Strong organisational and/or foundational project management skills
• Experience in the early phases of a major project beneficial but not essential
• Particularly seeking experience in one or more of the following fields: Mechanical, Pipework, Structural, Electrical Engineering, Design for Manufacture

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Quality Engineering team:

This role will pioneer a new and exciting approach to Quality, using industry best practice and cutting-edge tools and techniques, to engineering quality into the heart of our programmes.

As part of this role, you will be driving Quality considerations into the consciousness of others and ensuring high standards of outputs are attained and maintained.

Driving performance through learning and improvement on processes that are of integral importance to product operation and safety is a key part of the quality engineer’s responsibility and therefore there will be opportunity for further training and development in key quality engineering techniques. The team has a solid focus on personal and professional development with opportunities to develop into leadership roles.

We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 3rd October 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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