Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

Babcock Canada Inc.; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering firm is seeking a Senior Supplier Quality Specialist to lead supplier quality assurance and continuous improvement in a hybrid working environment. The successful candidate will work with complex engineering supply chains and is expected to possess significant experience in quality management and continuous improvement practices. The role offers a dynamic working atmosphere with comprehensive benefits including a pension scheme and flexible working conditions.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

Flexible working options

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Quality Management experience within an engineering environment.
• Proficient in lean and continuous improvement principles.
• Demonstrable experience in conducting quality investigations.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier quality assurance and continuous improvement.
• Audit suppliers for compliance with quality requirements.
• Approve supplier documentation and oversee process approvals.
• Investigate non-conformances and implement corrective actions.
• Drive improvements in quality, cost, delivery, and performance.

Skills

Quality Management experience

Lean and continuous improvement principles

Conducting quality investigations

Education

Level 5 qualification in relevant engineering/scientific discipline

Level 4 qualification

Job description

Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG; Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX; Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF; Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ; Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD; Portsmouth, GB, PO6 3EN; Warrington, GB, WA4 6HL.

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

Location: Hybrid, UK (Midlands/South West preferred)

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70244

Shape supplier excellence that powers defence, aerospace, and engineering.

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 Supplier Quality Specialist at any of our main UK locations (although Midlands / South West preferred).

We value difference and inclusion, and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone is supported to thrive and grow.

The role

As a Senior Supplier Quality Specialist, you’ll take the lead on supplier quality assurance and continuous improvement across our Group Procurement and Supply Chain function. It’s a role with real impact, offering scope to build your expertise across complex engineering supply chains while developing your career in a performance‑driven, inclusive organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll raise standards, reduce risk and drive “right‑first‑time” delivery of mission‑critical goods and services contributing to projects that protect national security and public infrastructure.

• Audit suppliers on site to verify compliance with contractual and quality requirements and support effective flow‑down of those requirements.
• Approve supplier documentation (e.g., Inspection & Test Plans), witness control points and oversee special process approvals and source releases.
• Lead investigations into non‑conformance, identify root causes and implement corrective and preventive actions that stick.
• Drive lean and continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers to optimise quality, cost, delivery and schedule performance.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure product conformity and robust assurance throughout the lifecycle.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

• Quality Management experience within an engineering environment.
• Proficient in the application of lean and continuous improvement principles.
• Proficient in conducting quality investigations.

Qualifications for the Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

• Relevant Level 5 qualification or demonstrable experience in a relevant engineering/scientific discipline and a Level 4 qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• 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 [babcockint...tional.com]
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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 [e-mail] 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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