Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

7/14/2025

Job Title: Senior Supply Quality Specialist

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65427

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 Supply Quality Specialist.

The role

As a Senior Supply Quality Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. In support of increasingly complex business programmes, the Supplier Quality Team within the Group Procurement & Supply Chain function are responsible for driving quality assurance and improvement associated with the supply of goods and services to the business.

Day-to-day, you’ll spend a high percentage of time working within the supply chain across multiple UK based suppliers, and occasional international based suppliers.

• Quality approval of suppliers and associated assurance activity to ensure suppliers fully comply with contractual requirements, including conducting on-site auditing of suppliers and supporting the flow-down of quality requirements to suppliers, including contract reviews.
• Approval of supplier issued documentation relating to product conformity prior to acceptance by the business.
• Collation and analysis of supplier performance data to enable risk-based decisions built upon data.
• Execution of supplier facing improvement & intervention activities to drive right first-time supply of products and services as part of non-conformance management or broader improvement initiatives.
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Supply Quality Specialist:

• Experience of delivering quality within a Science, Technical, Engineering and Manufacturing (STEM) environment
• Proficient in the application of improvement tools and principles (such as Lean, Continual Improvement, etc.).
• Proficient in conducting quality investigations
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Senior Supply Quality Specialist:

• Relevant Level 5 Qualification or demonstrable experience in relevant STEM discipline and Level 4 Qualification (desirable)
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
  
  
  

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 28/07/2025