At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure product quality meets standards and provide feedback to technicians.
- Company: Join BAE Systems, a leader in pioneering progress and protecting what matters.
- Benefits: Competitive pension, health plans, flexible benefits, and potential annual incentives.
- Other info: Inclusive workplace with opportunities for travel and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on quality assurance in a dynamic engineering environment.
- Qualifications: Degree in engineering or equivalent experience in quality management.
The predicted salary is between 28000 - 35000 £ per year.
hackajob is collaborating with BAE Critical Skills to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. This Quality Engineer role is focused on ensuring finished products consistently meet customer expectations and internal standards. Providing constructive feedback to technicians, you will support the delivery of high-quality output. Ultimately, you will safeguard product integrity by ensuring all items are compliant, accurate, and fully approved for delivery, maintaining strong quality assurance practices throughout the production process.
Responsibilities include:
- Ensuring operational compliance to specifications and quality standards.
- Leading and managing the resolution of quality issues and supporting the internal audit process and external audits.
- Reviewing shop floor records, technical specifications and drawings, inspection of products for approval and review and approval of Certificates of Conformity.
- Monitoring, analysing and reporting of reject data and quality issues to both internal and external customers.
- Working closely with export customers to understand their product and quality requirements.
- Willing to travel within the UK and Overseas for supplier and customer reviews, visits and audits.
You’ll hold a qualification in an engineering discipline or be time served in an engineering discipline – Engineering, Maths or Science degree or equivalent. You’ll have proven experience within quality management in a manufacturing environment, preferably of a similarly highly controlled nature (aerospace, automotive, nuclear, medical devices, etc.). You’ll be able to competently use a range of quality investigation techniques such as 8D, 5 Whys and Ishikawa. You’ll be able to effectively coordinate data collection whenever necessary to inform business decisions.
Reporting to the IDT Senior Quality Engineer, you will be working on all aspects of quality management across a wide range of ammunition natures. Working within an Integrated Delivery Team you will be working closely with a number of different stakeholder departments including Project Management, Engineering and Procurement. This position will be primarily based at the BAE Systems Land UK site in Glascoed, Monmouthshire on a 4 / 4.5 day working pattern with occasional travel to other manufacturing and supplier sites as necessary.
We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
Graduate Engineer / Quality Engineer employer: BAE Critical Skills
BAE Systems is an exceptional employer that offers a dynamic work environment in Barrow-in-Furness, where you can contribute to pioneering defence and aerospace solutions. With a strong commitment to employee growth, lifelong learning, and a culture of inclusivity, you'll find ample opportunities to develop your skills while being recognised for your contributions. Enjoy a balanced lifestyle with tailored rewards and relocation support, all within a supportive community that values diversity and shared purpose.
