About the role

  • Senior Quality Manager leading quality excellence in a landmark defense program at Babcock in Rosyth, Fife. Shaping the future of UK shipbuilding and ensuring product, process, and service quality.

Responsibilities

  • Leading and mentoring a team of quality managers and specialists, building a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Developing and implementing a robust quality management strategy aligned to business and programme goals.
  • Overseeing quality control and assurance processes to ensure compliance with industry standards and customer requirements.
  • Driving quality improvement initiatives and identifying risks, ensuring effective mitigations are put in place.
  • Working closely with engineering, production, supply chain and regulatory bodies to strengthen quality performance across the programme.

Requirements

  • Experience in quality management within a shipbuilding or complex engineering environment, in a leadership capacity.
  • Strong background in quality control or assurance within sectors such as naval, aerospace, manufacturing or automotive.
  • Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate teams, influence stakeholders and drive change.
  • Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities, with a data‑driven approach.
  • Proficiency in quality management systems and continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Chartered Quality Professional or an equivalent professional certification – Desirable.
  • The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

  • 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 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
  • ‘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

Job title

Senior Quality Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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