Senior Quality Manager

As a Senior Quality Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. The Skynet Programme is exploiting technological advances to deliver the next generation of military communication satellites to MOD, together with the equipment and services needed to monitor, protect, control and exploit them. Day-to-day, you'll lead and be accountable for the Development and Implementation of the Quality Strategy of the Business Unit, in line with the Sector over-arching strategy and Group Strategy and external accreditations.

• To plan for the required resources to be in place to match the business growth aspirations of the Business Unit.
• Be accountable for the incoming and outgoing quality of products and services.
• To be the independent representative of the Customer to deliver products and services in line with Customer contract quality requirements.
• To design, produce and implement a quality management process considering the unique and common requirements for each bid.
• To manage quality performance of the Contract in order to detect and fix potential issues before they become actual issues.
• To manage independent reviews of issues, fix them and to conduct root cause analysis to avoid repeat issues arising.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home. You may be required for longer periods on site if the project demands.


• Significant relevant experience and subject matter expertise and a Quality practitioner and Quality Manager within a large, complex, global organisation.
• A strategic thinker, with the ability to see ahead to future possibilities.
• The ability to work effectively and collaboratively with senior stakeholders, across the business.
• The ability to develop talent and appropriate succession plans to meet our future requirements across Babcock (not just within the Mission Systems Sector)., A recognised Quality Management post graduate qualification or demonstration of significant in-role relevant experience.
• Membership of a recognised quality institute e.g. CQI would be desirable.
Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

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
• Generous holiday allowance
• 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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills
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