Senior Quality Manager – Quality Engineering

Job Title: Senior Quality Manager – Quality Engineering

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – Onsite

Salary: From £60,350 – depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

1. Leading a team of 15 quality engineers to deliver strategic, six sigma improvement projects targeted at reducing programme risk due to quality issues
2. Providing management support to junior managers in the team – issue resolution, fostering collaboration, and skills development to ensure successful project delivery
3. Communicating quality performance and progress of ‘right first time’ interventions to key stakeholders, including programme directors and customers
4. Synthesising data from a wide range of sources to develop improvement strategies and determine operational priorities
5. Adapting departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges

Your skills and experiences:

1. Proven leadership experience
2. Experienced in effective stakeholder management on complex projects
3. Experience in application of Improvement methodologies (FMEA, DMAIC, 8D). Minimum Six Sigma Green Belt qualified
4. Experience in quality/continuous improvement, ideally within a manufacturing environment
5. Strong organisational, project management, and data analysis skills. Excellent communication ability – written and verbal

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 Quality Engineering team:

This is an exciting opportunity to lead an ambitious and innovative team. This role will provide the chance to drive tangible improvements across complex programmes, with development opportunities available.

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.

Closing Date: 27th January 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.