Quality Lead

23 hours ago

Barrow, Cumbria, United Kingdom BAE Systems Full time

Job Title: Quality Lead - Inspection (Dimensional Control)

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. On-Site

Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on skills & experience

What you'll be doing:

  • Being responsible for all aspects delivery of Dimensional Control in your chosen facility, this include managing a team of metrology inspectors
  • Supporting internal and external audits, these will also include quality investigations and root cause analysis workshops
  • Supporting and leading build reviews and delivery look ahead to support all programmes
  • Ensuring LfE (Learn from Experience) is captured and fed back into the programme
  • Co-ordinating resources across the facility to support programme requirements
  • Reducing defects, through predictive measurement and reporting
  • Supporting Dimensional Control handovers between facilities
  • Interfacing with Customer, representing Quality and Dimensional Control

Your skills and experiences:

  • NVQ 3 in a STEM related discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) or equivalent
  • Knowledge of Metrology best practices, equipment and software programs
  • Experienced user of SAP and Teamcenter
  • Submarines knowledge/experience

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Dimensional Control team:

Dimensional Control is the application of 3D measurement to generate the 'As-'built' condition of a component the data is also used to simulate manufacture in a digital space to aid build decisions. We use a range of cutting-edge metrology technology to improve productivity whilst also lowering our measurement uncertainty.

This is an opportunity to support the build team for Submarines across the entire Barrow site, ensuring the platform meets design intent.

We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date\: 16th January 2026

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.

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