Senior Quality Manager – Programme Integration

Job Title: Senior Quality Manager – Programme Integration

Location: Barrow-in-Furness (Fulltime onsite)

Salary: Starting from £60,500+ car allowance on top

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for being the single point of truth of programme performance and compliance for Quality

• Leading the performance narrative and improvement agenda

• Ensuring that the Quality requirements for relevant products and programmes are addressed and are being met effectively

• Overseeing the governance and assurance of Quality performance across the Business Unit

• Ensuring compliance of internal and customer Quality requirements

• Taking ownership of Quality Strategic objectives within the programmes to ensure consistent alignment and credibility

• Leading and supporting the development of your team

Your skills and experience:

Essential:

• Experience leading, influencing and motivating the Quality agenda at business level

• Extensive knowledge of quality engineering practices

• Ability to interpret and challenge specifications, procedures and contracts requirements

• Experience leading complex Quality investigations

Desirable:

• Submarine programme quality management knowledge

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.

The Quality Engineering and Programme Integration Team:

You’ll be joining a multi-programme team focused on a data-driven approach to improving business performance by preventing defects, accelerating schedule adherence and reducing Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ). This is a diverse role where you’ll make a real impact working across all the programmes to ensure quality performance improvement is driven and product compliance is achieved. 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 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: 13^th April 2026.               

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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