Quality Leader

Job Description

Job Title: Quality Leader

Location: Barrow-in-Furness (contractual site) and regular travel to supplier sites

Salary: Starting from £47,271 (DOE)

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading daily Quality Assurance and Governance activities across supplier sites

• Driving strategic manufacturing enablement initiatives to support business objectives

• Ownerships of records and project assurance activities for strategic manufacturing programmes

• Managing non-conformances and producing accurate, timely, quality reports

• Conducting supplier visits and overseeing sub-tier work activities to ensure compliance and performance

• Escalating issues and driving corrective actions through to closure at supplier sites

• Capturing lessons learned and embedding best practices for future manufacturing activities

Your skills and experience:

Essential:

• Lead Auditing Qualification (e.g. IRCA Lead Auditor) or equivalent experience

• Understanding of ISO9001 / EN1090 standards

• Experience of Quality documentation (ITP’s and MRB’s)

• Valid UK driving licence

Desirable:

• Quality Supplier management experience

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 Strategic Manufacturing and Jigs Quality Team:

As a key member of the team, you will play a pivotal role in managing and developing supplier relationships to deliver strategic manufacturing capability and Jigs products in support of critical programmes. This role offers an excellent opportunity to make a visible impact and continue building your career within a supportive and progressive environment. 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 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: 29th April 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.

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