Senior Quality Engineer

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Engineer at either our Bristol or Devonport site, near Bristol, Somerset or Plymouth, Devon.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Mission Systems business, supporting the delivery of critical defence and engineering programmes. You'll play a key role in ensuring complex projects meet customer, regulatory and business quality requirements, helping deliver solutions that contribute to national security and operational excellence.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to influence quality culture, drive continuous improvement, engage with customers and stakeholders, and make a lasting impact across high-profile projects.

The role involves providing expert quality support across the project lifecycle, helping teams deliver to the highest standards of quality, safety and performance. This is a varied and influential role where you'll work closely with project teams, customers and leadership to ensure successful outcomes while developing your own expertise within a leading international engineering organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Provide quality advice, guidance and support to project teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify and manage customer, regulatory and internal quality requirements across multiple projects.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and drive positive quality culture change.
• Assess quality risks and implement mitigation actions, escalating where appropriate.
• Build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders while representing quality interests across programmes.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 / 2 days onsite and 2 / 3 days working from home.

Essential Experience Of The Senior Quality Engineer

• Significant practical experience in a Quality Engineering role within a regulated engineering, manufacturing, defence, aerospace or related industry.
• Strong understanding of quality management principles throughout a product or service delivery lifecycle.
• Experience supporting projects and working with customer-facing stakeholders.
• Proven ability to drive quality improvements and support organisational culture change.
• Experience identifying, managing and mitigating quality-related risks.

Qualifications For The Senior Quality Engineer

• Desirable: ONC, HNC or NVQ Level 3 qualification in a Quality, science, engineering discipline, or at least 3 years working in a Quality role.
• Membership of an applicable body, i.e., CQI is preferred.
• ISO 9001 auditor.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

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 share scheme.
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘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.
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• A dynamic working environment.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 13/08/2026