Senior Quality Specialist – Product Improvement Lead

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Quality Specialist-Product Improvement

Location: Samlesbury

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

Salary: £54,739+ dependent of skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for the coordination, integration and management of product improvement activities across functional stakeholders.
• Manage improvement activities across multi-disciplined teams located both on site and with virtual support
• Collaborate with Quality and Manufacturing Operations teams to ensure that continuous improvement activities are agreed, managed and progressed
• Provide regular reports of improvement status, implementation progress and benefits realised for management and senior leadership team reviews
• Promote the product improvement culture across the business
• Represent the business within Air Sector improvement forums, ensuring best practise is shared through the Material Review Boards (MRBs) and Corrective Action Boards (CABs)
• Perform objective process confirmations to demonstrate pre- and post- improvement based performance
• Collaborate and communicate across our business functions, presenting factual information to our internal and external stakeholders

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• HND/HNC (or equivalent relevant experience) in Quality or a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics)
• Has the ability and proven record to drive improvements, moving the organisation forward from beyond compliance to a more lean and effective one
• Is familiar with key investigation and improvement tools and techniques (6 sigma, 8D, PFMEA, lean) with the ability to interpret data

Desirable

• Working towards, or holding six sigma green or black belt accreditation

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 Quality Team:

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Quality Specialist working within the Air Sector based at the Samlesbury unit facility. The role is to lead product improvements across the portfolio of Europe & International products (Typhoon, Hawk and T45 aircraft).

Here you will have the opportunity to visit other sites to conduct your work as needed, growing your internal network and meeting people face to face. You will also be working as part of virtual team, in this muti faceted changing dynamic environment.

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: 30th April 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.