Senior Quality Engineer Assurance

Job title: Senior Quality Engineer Assurance

Location: Warton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £47,683+ depending on experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Ensuring compliance to company, contractual and statutory/regulatory quality requirements is maintained throughout the full development lifecycle
• Operating as the Quality Assurance focal point for Engineering capability teams working within the Design, Development, Test and Evaluation Service Delivery Unit
• Proactive engagement and working closely with the engineering teams in order to assure the design, development and deployment of quality products and Services throughout the development lifecycle
• Undertaking First Article Verifications and signing Certificates of Conformity on behalf of the business and supporting customer release activities as required across the varied teams
• Effectively conducting the timely investigation and resolution of all reported quality issues and Customer quality concerns associated within the Engineering Capability organisation
• Support the utilisation of business information to identify and proactively drive Quality and business led improvement activities focussed towards improving the quality of our products and services
• Conduct as required to schedule, all internal system / process / product / audits and provision of support to third party certification audits and the timely resolution of all identified non-conformances
• Providing Quality advice and support to all levels of the Engineering Capability organisation and associated stakeholders

Essential Your skills and experiences:

• HNC / HND (or equivalent relevant experience) ideally in Quality or an Engineering related discipline
• Good understanding and implementation of Quality practices, tools and techniques
• Strong IT literacy, especially with Microsoft applications
• Experience of Life Cycle Management and the Engineering Lifecycle

Desirable

• Extensive knowledge of quality requirements for aerospace and defence contracts (e.g. EN9100, defence regulations and standards)
• Knowledge / experience of our Customer Operations and any of the Aircraft platforms we support

Benefits

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Design Development Test & Evaluation (DDT&E) Quality Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Quality Engineer to join our dynamic and fast-paced team. In this pivotal role, you’ll ensure our engineering teams deliver excellence by driving compliance with company, contractual, statutory, and regulatory quality standards. You’ll play a key part in assuring the design, development, and support of innovative products and services supplied to our valued national and international customers operating BAE Systems’ world-class aerospace platforms.

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: 21st November 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.