Senior Quality Manager – AUKUS

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Quality Manager – AUKUS Integration

Location: Barrow-in-Furness (Fulltime onsite)

Salary: From £60,500 + car allowance (DOE)

What you’ll be doing:

• Reporting to the Head of Quality – SSNA Programme, you will lead a global long-term strategy that delivers excellence aligned with organisational priorities

• Leading collaboration with other Integrated Project Teams, business functions and industrial partners to integrate working pathways for programme success

• Providing strategic and operational leadership and management to an organisation of multi-disciplined diverse professional resource base

• Applying a continuous improvement approach, identifying new technology which will advance the future ways of working

• Developing Quality Management Plans; creating and maintaining Assurance Schedules including associated audits

• Building strong, collaborative relationships across international teams and influencing quality recommendations for the programme

Your skills and experience:

Essential:

• Ability to lead complex quality investigations using Root Cause Analysis methods and techniques

• Capable of setting and verifying strategic actions to benefit strategic growth and risk and issue management

• Ability to define, deploy and utilise Key Performance Indicators to highlight quality risks and vulnerabilities across a range of stakeholders

• Degree level qualified, or equivalent professional experience

Desirable:

• Experience of working closely with Quality organisations

• Member of Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) or equivalent professional body

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 Team:

This is a rare opportunity to join a high-profile programme within the SSNA Quality Organisation, working across functions, international partners and customers. You’ll support delivery across Design, Build and AUKUS programmes, collaborating with expert teams while benefiting from strong career development and progression opportunities. 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: 24th March 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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