Quality Director

Are you an experienced Quality professional working at Director level? We are currently looking for a Quality Director who brings a tried and tested vision to deliver long term continuous improvement. This role will be based at our Submarines business in Barrow–in–Furness.

As a Quality Director, you will be accountable for the delivery of Quality Assurance, Quality Control & Quality Engineering across multiple large complex programmes and set the quality strategy in alignment with the broader business strategy – defining the strategic assurance activities that underpin delivery. Creating/maintaining a team of like–minded professionals who equally strive for organisational belief and commitment and demonstrate the continuous learning ethos and quality culture.

We are not looking for an enforcer of process or discipline, or for that matter an exponent of inspection and investigation – although governance, compliance and an ability to drive outcomes will be required. Rather we need a collaborative leader who can garner the operations leaders, the programme directors and functional leaders across their peer group – create the belief and shared commitment to creating stakeholder/reputational value and commercial effect through the collective deployment of a Total Quality Management system that addresses motivations and behavioural change, continuous learning and the improvement of process and accountability whilst attending to the relevant metrics that will demonstrate prevention, performance and effect.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to sit as a member of the Submarines Management Committee and report directly to the Managing Director.

Your main responsibilities as Quality Director will involve:

Accountable for the delivery of Quality across multiple large complex programmes and set the quality strategy in alignment with the broader business strategy – defining the strategic assurance activities that underpin delivery.
Creating/maintaining a team of like–minded professionals is key to success – ensuring a cohort of like–minded professionals who equally strive for organisational belief and commitment and demonstrate the continuous learning ethos and quality culture.
Represent the business in International and UK level stakeholder groups including the MOD and Submarine Delivery Agency for the benefit of establishing commonality, best practice and coordinating initiatives and activities with regulatory/government agencies and other industry stakeholders.
Collaborate with operational leaders, programme directors and functional leaders to create stakeholder/reputational value and commercial effect through the collective deployment of a Total Quality Management system that addresses motivations and behavioural change, continuous learning and the improvement of process and accountability whilst attending to the relevant metrics that will demonstrate prevention, performance and effect. Your skills and qualifications:

Essential

Quality management and controls disciplines relating to technically complex programmes i.e. Defence Systems or similar.
Demonstratable experience of executive level operational leadership.
Demonstrate a blend of quality, engineering and technical expertise.
Quality management and controls disciplines relating to technically complex programmes.
Experience of delivering compliance and improvement at a business level.
Leadership of culture transformation focused around Quality Performance and execution.
Experience working in highly regulated environments. Desirable

Submarine / Nuclear experience OR Heavy Engineering/Manufacturing.
Technical Undergraduate Degree or HNC – ideally holds a degree in a relevant technical, science, engineering or business discipline, or equivalent education gained through work experience.Location: Barrow–in–Furness

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan.

Maritime – Submarines

Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century.

The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state–of–the–art vessels. In total, seven boats will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes.

Dreadnought is the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines. We will deliver four submarines to the Royal Navy, with the first submarine entering service in the early 2030s. Dreadnought is widely considered to be one of the world's most complex engineering challenges.

We have sites in Barrow–in–Furness, Filton, Frimley, Ash Vale, Broad Oak and Weymouth, and we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around. Join us and you'll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

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