Quality Team Leader

Job title: Quality Team Leader

Location: Rochester

Salary: Circa £54,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the team to deliver functional and project objectives

• Supporting the team to deliver day-to-day tasks across Hardware, Software, PLD, Safety disciplines including, non-conformance management, audit, gate reviews, First Article inspection, build support, documentation review and change control

• General Supervision of the team including people management, people development and annual performance reviews

• Lead and support continuous improvement

• Conducting monthly Estimate To Complete (ETC) reviews with the team against plan and forecasting forward loading resource requirements for the team and supporting recruitment activities where required

• Supporting early bid activities, creating and delivering ETC’s derived from customer/ industry requirements, business practices and project briefings

• Act as an Assessor for Quality at the various Gate reviews

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Extensive knowledge and experience of Quality tools, processes and procedures

• Experience with people management and or coaching/ mentoring

• An inquisitive mind-set, articulate, with excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Evidence of building networks and good relationships with others across the business.

Desirable:

• Experience of Development / Manufacturing in the aerospace environment

• Good working knowledge of EN9100, AS9102, DO178, DO254, APR 4754 & ARP 4761

• Lean 6-sigma trained

• Knowledge of APQP/PPAP to AS9145

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 Assurance Development Team:

Reporting to the Development Quality Manager, this is an exciting role is to lead a team of engineers focussed on supporting development across Controls, Displays and Inceptors projects. Additionally, the role is responsible for ensuring the team are managing all quality requirements from early bid stage through qualification and into production. As well as general supervision tasks the role is also to support projects and drive functional objectives.

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: 4th August 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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