Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Job Title: Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

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

Salary: £50,000 Dependant on experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting and delivering the functional objective to continuously improve supply chain quality
• Working in conjunction with procurement and programme teams to proactively identify and address supply chain quality issues and drive continuous improvement activities
• Continually reducing the number of defects during the manufacturing cycle at BAE Systems through improved supplied quality
• Supporting and executing risk-based annual audit plan, prepare, execute, measure and monitor and ensure timely closure of findings
• Developing, maintaining and enhancing manufacturing processes
• Improving supplier performance
  
  

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

• Effective stakeholder management and collaboration
• The ability to support quality investigations including root cause analysis methodologies
• Knowledge of business management systems and associated processes
• Experience of capability evaluations of new sources
• Ability to constructively challenge and drive an improvement based culture
  
  

Desirable

• Aerospace or automotive experience
• Knowledge of business improvement techniques
• Knowledge of quality certification and regulatory standards
  
  

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 Technical Supply Chain Team

Joining the Electronic Systems business, this is an opportunity to join a technically orientated team, focused on developing supplier capability and technical troubleshooting as part of the wider procurement organisation.

You will be a key individual within design and development, whilst working closely with global suppliers and key stakeholders, giving you wide exposure.

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.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 2nd May 2024

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.