Job Title: Quality Engineer

Location: Hillend, Fife – on site

Salary: up to £49180 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Liaise / interface with appropriate areas of the business to build and maintain effective relationships in pursuit of improvement opportunities
• Responsible for conducting Quality investigations and reporting results using agreed processes and identifying trends to support improvement activities
• Represent the department at local Quality reviews and liaise with the customer when required

Your skills and experiences:

• PCB assembly knowledge
• The ability to critique and tailor issues and ideas in written reports and presentations ensuring accuracy and clarity of meaning
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in own discipline within Quality and a broad understanding of other Quality related disciplines coupled with Awareness of ISO 9001/ EN9100 standards
• Be experienced in coordinating/ facilitating and influencing large teams for Continuous Improvement
• NC or HNC qualified in an appropriate technical discipline or equivalent experience and of Trade background – time served in trade discipline

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 Control team

As a Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for monitoring and ensuring process conformance over a wide and diverse product range and providing the definition and delivery of improvement plans within the manufacturing environment.

The role will involve carrying out root cause analysis using industry standard methods and managing the implementation of corrective actions with various stakeholders.

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 October 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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