Quality Leader

Job Title: Quality Leader – Supplier improvements

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Understanding and deploying quality engineering techniques in new programmes
• Supporting meetings to closely embed APQP, PPAP, and FAIR processes for the SSNA Programme
• Presentations within the company including training and coaching sessions on APQP tools and techniques
• Aiding in developing, maintaining, and managing key collaborative relationships in the business both internally and externally
• Assisting senior leaders, Leading & supporting LFE Quality Lessons Learnt forums

Your skills and experiences:

• APQP, PPAP or FAIR experience preferably in a Manufacturing or Engineering environment
• Project Management experience
• Presentation skills and experience
• Manufacturing / Mechanical / Electrical Engineering / Quality Management experience or Equivalent
• Valid UK Driver’s License (travel within the UK required for this position)

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 Supplier Improvement team:

As a member of the Supplier Improvement team, you will be working principally within the SSNA program. Working collaboratively with functions on site to help support progressing improvements and streamlining processes by the implementation of APQP tools and techniques. Travel will also be required on occasions with UK. There will be opportunities to meet and build relations with senior stakeholders and develop yourself to progress your career with BAE Systems. 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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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: 11th February 2025

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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