Global Senior Product Quality Governance Manager
Location: Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD Portsmouth, GB, PO6 3EN Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
The role
You will play a pivotal role in strengthening how product quality is governed across Babcock International Group. This leadership position will shape end‑to‑end product quality governance frameworks and ensure product quality risks are understood, controlled, and managed consistently across diverse sectors and international operations.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities
- Leading group‑level product quality risk assessments across sectors and delivery units
- Defining governance controls, requirements and assurance activities that improve product quality outcomes
- Creating and implementing product quality governance policies, processes and procedures
- Conducting technical assurance reviews and vertical product audits across the organisation
- Supporting and influencing engineering teams on design for manufacture, inspection and critical specifications
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.
This is a full‑time, permanent role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. The role can be based at any of our main UK locations with hybrid working patterns.
Essential Experience
- Significant experience in product quality, quality assurance or engineering roles, including leadership responsibility
- Proven knowledge of quality systems, standards, product quality control and assurance
- Experience working across complex, regulated environments such as defence, aerospace or engineering
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across global, multi‑disciplinary teams
- Extensive practical application of quality and engineering tools and techniques
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a quality, science or engineering discipline
- Chartered membership of an applicable body (Engineering or Quality), e.g., CQI preferred
- Lead auditor qualification in either AS9100 or ISO 9001
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain a Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Benefits
- 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‑day special paid leave
- Holiday trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave
- Be Kind Day: one working day of paid leave per year for volunteering work with a chosen organisation or registered charity
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 careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’.
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