Principal Quality Inspector

Job Title: Principal Quality Engineer

Location: Liverpool (Birkenhead) – Onsite

Salary: £40,748+ depending on skills & experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Perform welding inspections and structural inspections in line with Supplier ITP requirements

• Conduct conditions management and customer walk-round audits and developing and coaching others

• Develop, maintain and modify processes and procedures in assigned areas

• Lead the verification of all non-conformances

• Perform on the job process verification audit and surveillances

• Verification & approval of manufacturing record books

• Use calibrated measuring equipment to assess and measure tolerances of the product and record any non-conformance

• Ensuring effective dissemination across the inspection teams and cross-functionally where required

Your skills and experience:

Essential

• CSWIP Welding Inspector (3:1)

• Structural Inspection experience

• Stakeholder Management experience

Desirable

• NDE inspection experience

• SAP experience

• Full UK driving license

• MPI certificate

• ICORR Level 1

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 Quality Inspection Team:

Join BAE Systems’ Quality Inspection team and play a key role in the UK’s National Defence programmes, including Dreadnought and SSN-AUKUS, the Royal Navy’s most advanced submarines. This on-site role offers hands-on experience, skill development, and long-term career growth in a critical and cutting-edge environment. 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: 23rd July 2025.

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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