Job Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Bordon, Hampshire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58322
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Quality Practitioner at our Oakhanger site.
The Role
As a Quality Practitioner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be instrumental in ensuring quality processes are implemented and upheld across the site.
Day-to-day, you'll ensure the delivery of one of our most important contracts is done the highest possible quality.
- Sit within project team focusing on infrastructure projects
- Provide advice, guidance and support to the project team on all quality related matters
- Review existing processes and look for improvement opportunities
- Identify quality risk and work to mitigate and manage
- Attending delivery review boards
This position may involve travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Oakhanger, near the town of Bordon in East Hampshire.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Experience required of the Quality Practitioner
- Knowledge of ISO9001 Quality Management System
- Experience around process improvement
- Knowledge of quality tools beneficial
- Experience in related industry
Qualifications for the Quality Practitioner
- HNC or equivalent in engineering, quality or other relevant subject
- CQI membership beneficial
- ISO 9001 Auditor preferred but not essential
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 is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
- Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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.
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