Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance engineer

Location: Glasgow, Govan (On Site)

Salary: Up to £48,000 (dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

  • Embed oneself into the manufacturing and fabrication facilities to provide Quality Assurance and support to key stakeholders
  • Carry out Surveillances, Audits, Process conformations and investigations as required
  • Support the update of policy documents/User guides/Mis by attending reviews or First Articles
  • Bring LFe from past experience and previous contracts to mitigate against quality escapes
  • Document trends in Pareto Graphs to Identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Attend/lead on Manufacturing project reviews and improvement forums
  • Create and deliver PowerPoint slides, construct Toolbox talks and quality alerts
  • Support Area/Ships leads by attending local stand up meetings and feedback to Quality Leads

Your skills and experiences:

  • Background and solid foundation of manufacturing and fabrication processes ideally from a ship building environment
  • Capable of writing technical documents such as Quality Procedures, Quality Management Plans and Inspection & Test Plans
  • Auditor trained and conversant with ISO 9001
  • Knowledge of quality techniques such as RCA, CAPA, FMEA or Lean Manufacturing
  • Strong networking ability to Influence and communicate the importance of Quality Assurance

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Type T26 Platform QA Team

Type T26 Platform QA are a multidisciplined team of 8 that include both time served trades people and quality professionals. They are made up from Ship build, mechanical, electrical and manufacturing backgrounds with a varied knowledge of the product. Working with all functions and stake holders associated in the construction and commissioning of a naval ship to identify potential quality escapes before they happen and facilitate improvements by carrying out audits as well as reviewing data from various sources such as QC RFT, Non-Conformance information & Program look a heads.

Due to the varied nature of the work, you will be expected to support all disciplines to gain knowledge and a broad understanding of end-to-end ship building which will provide the opportunities to advance as a quality professional and gain qualifications as a Lead Auditor that will support your development and the potential move into a lead quality role

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date 28th January 2026. Interviews for this position will take place W/C 9th February.

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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