Quality Business Partner - Quality Manager

Job Title:                     Quality Business Partner – Quality Manager

Location:                     Beckton, London – Park Royal, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £62,000 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71874

Lead quality excellence that strengthens resilience training across London.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Quality Business Partner – Quality Manager supporting our Training Services – Land business, primarily across London.

The role

As a Quality Business Partner – Quality Manager, you’ll take the lead in shaping and delivering the quality strategy across our Resilience training programmes. You’ll work closely with contract teams, external partners and government emergency service clients to ensure training is compliant, continuously improving, and delivered to the highest standard.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Leading the internal quality cycle, including developing and monitoring the Self‑Assessment Report (SAR) and Quality Improvement Plan (QIP).


• Creating, implementing and updating quality policies in collaboration with higher education partners and customers.


• Taking the lead on Ofsted preparation activities across the business unit.


• Acting as the key quality point‑of‑contact for customers including the Metropolitan Police and London Fire Brigade.


• Managing the quality team to ensure compliance with processes, including internal quality assurance (IQA) activities.

This is a full‑time, permanent position, operating on a hybrid working pattern of three days onsite across London locations and two days from home.

Essential experience of the Quality Business Partner – Quality Manager:

• Background in education, training quality or centre management.


• Strong knowledge of the Education and Inspection Framework and apprenticeship provision.


• Experience acting as an Ofsted nominee for apprenticeship programmes.


• Understanding of commercial training and safeguarding requirements.


• Knowledge of ISO 9001 (desirable).

Qualifications for the Quality Business Partner – Quality Manager:

• A recognised quality qualification (e.g., Qualified IQA).


• Level 2 English and maths (or equivalent).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and maintain Non-Police Personnel Vetting Level 1 (NPPV1) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.


• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 05/03/2026

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