Senior Quality Manager

Location: Bristol, UK

Location Type: Hybrid

Contract Type: Internship

Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead Quality Excellence That Shapes a Safer, More Secure World

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Manager at Ashton House, Bristol.

The role

As a Senior Quality Manager, you will have the opportunity to develop quality improvement actions to progress overall performance, whilst providing direction and support to the successful development of our business unit. In this influential leadership position, you’ll lead and be accountable for the Development and Implementation of the Sense and Connect Quality Strategy, in line with the Sector overarching strategy and Group Strategy with external accreditations.

Responsibilities

• Designing, producing and implementing a quality management process considering the unique and common requirements for each bid.
• Developing simple key performance indicators to monitor past and predict future quality performance, whilst working with the Business Unit and Functions, to develop quality improvement actions to advance overall performance.
• Managing quality performance in order to detect and fix potential issues before they become actual issues as well as conduct root cause analysis to avoid repeat issues arising.
• Manage quality activities in line with Group and Sector Policies and procedures and to external Accreditations (e.g., ISO) as well as other industry, technology and Customer mandated accreditations as required.
• Providing direction and support to the successful development of the Sense and Connect Systems Quality team.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week (flexible on hours) and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Senior Quality Manager

• Demonstrable ability to lead and develop a high‑performing team with strong technical capability.
• Experience delivering against KPIs and reporting tangible value to stakeholders.
• Evident strong attention to detail and the ability to identify and drive solutions at pace.
• Proven aptitude for navigating complexity and ambiguity while taking ownership to deliver positive outcomes.

Qualifications

• A recognised postgraduate qualification in Quality Management or significant equivalent in‑role experience.
• Registered member of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of leave.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year.
• Flexible working options.
• A dynamic working environment.

Babcock We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work‑life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 20/03/2026