Quality Practitioner

Job Title: Quality Practitioner
Location: Whetstone, Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56873

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 Quality Practitioner at our Whetstone site.

The role
As a Quality Practitioner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is an opportunity to contribute to the quality of a large defence company whist gaining on the job experience whilst completing a quality apprenticeship.

Day-to-day, you'll provide support and guidance to the business to achieve excellence to our customers, through right first time delivery of projects.

You'll also:

• Comply with the organisation's quality policies, plans and procedures
• Undertake internal surveillance and spot audits on the production facility to ensure compliant product and compliance
• Formally review and approve activities, work or documentation, in accordance with the appropriate regulatory, policy and procedural obligations including documentation pack sign off and product verification
• Monitor performance against departmental or organisational goals and use appropriate tools and techniques to drive improvement
• Provide the business with regular updates on planned workload and targets, taking accountability and responsibility whilst creating a common purpose within and across the team
• Demonstrate a positive safety culture ensuring compliance to the company procedures and awareness of potential hazards

This role is full time, 37-hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with two days in the office/onsite and three days working from home.

Essential experience of the Quality Practitioner

• A self-starter, who is performance driven with a desire to make significant contribution/impact
• Ability to work independently once clear direction is provided
• Ability to learn new skills/techniques, keep accurate records and follow instructions
• Conscientious person looking to work efficiently and to a high standard
• Good understanding of IT office systems (word, excel, outlook, power point)
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Qualifications for the Quality Practitioner

• Minimum GCSE Grade C in Maths and English

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.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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
• Opportunities to develop your career

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 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: 03/05/2024