SVP Assessor

Job Title: SVP Assessor

Location: Rochester, Kent

Salary: £35,000 + depending in skills and experience

What you’ll be doing: 

• Ensuring the quality of our products meets both our customers’ and our own expectations
• Documenting and reporting any workmanship failures of product
• Providing feedback to shop floor technicians
• Coordinating activities with internal stakeholders
• Contributing proactively to continuous improvement initiatives

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience in an engineering or manufacturing background
• Scheduling and managing your own workload
• Competent IT skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Desirable:

• Ideally the candidate will be certified to IPC-A-610 although this could be arranged if necessary
• Experience in Avionics
• Understanding of auditing including root cause tools and techniques

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 Electronics Systems team:

As a member of the team in one of the world’s leading defence, security and aerospace companies, you will be part of the development and supply of state-of-the-art products across a diverse range of commercial and military platforms; Head Up and Head Worn Displays, Safety Critical Pilot Control and Flight Control Systems. This is a great opportunity to work alongside different teams and exposure to work with all products at Rochester.

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: 6th January 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.

Due to the festive season, there may be a delay in the processing of your application. Your application is important to us, and we will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.