Quality Leader

Job Description

Job title: Quality Leader – Product Assurance

Location: Barrow in Furness (with UK wide travel)

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary:  From £45,628 per annum

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading, coaching and enhancing the capability of team members, including direct reporting as required
• Utilising your knowledge and experience to providing advice, support and coaching to our suppliers
• Drives the business zero defects and Cost of Non-Quality initiatives
• Ensuring that high quality records are produced as an output of the production processes and inspections

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Full UK Driving Licence
• HND/ equivalent qualification or experience within Engineering/Manufacturing
• A good working knowledge of Lean manufacturing/Six Sigma/ First Article Inspection Reporting (FAIR)
• Previous experience leading and managing others
• Previous experience within a Supplier Assurance Quality role
• Familiar with UK Defence Standards Eg. DEFSTAN 02-773

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 Product Assurance team:

As a Quality Leader – Product Assurance, you will be involved with one of the UK’s most complex, cutting-edge projects. You will have the exposure to an extensive range of stakeholder groups and industrial partners across the UK taking accountability for the Quality Assurance and verification requirements of documentation and hardware of procured parts. This role also provides you with an essential user car and hybrid working across the UK. 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: 5^th November 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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