At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead quality management strategy for a landmark defence programme in shipbuilding.
- Company: Join Babcock, a global leader in defence and engineering.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension scheme, health support, and professional development.
- Other info: Inclusive culture with flexible working options and excellent career growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of UK shipbuilding and contribute to national security.
- Qualifications: Experience in quality management and leadership in complex engineering environments.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Lead Quality Excellence in a Landmark Defence Programme
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quality Manager at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Senior Quality Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of UK shipbuilding and advancing one of the country’s most important defence programmes. You’ll lead the quality management strategy across the T31 programme, ensuring that every product, process and service meets the highest standards of safety, integrity and performance.
Day to day you’ll be:
- Leading and mentoring a team of quality managers and specialists, building a culture of continuous improvement.
- Overseeing quality control and assurance processes to ensure compliance with industry standards and customer requirements.
- Developing and implementing a robust quality management strategy aligned to business and programme goals.
- Driving quality improvement initiatives and identifying risks, ensuring effective mitigations are put in place.
- Working closely with engineering, production, supply chain and regulatory bodies to strengthen quality performance across the programme.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.
Essential experience of the Senior Quality Manager
- Experience in quality management within a shipbuilding or complex engineering environment, in a leadership capacity.
- Strong background in quality control or assurance within sectors such as naval, aerospace, manufacturing or automotive.
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate teams, influence stakeholders and drive change.
- Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities, with a data driven approach.
- Proficiency in quality management systems and continuous improvement methodologies.
Qualifications for the Senior Quality Manager
- Chartered Quality Professional or an equivalent professional certification - Desirable
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. 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.
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.
- 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 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: 22/06/2026
Senior Quality Manager in Dunfermline employer: Babcock International
Babcock is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment at our Rosyth site where you can lead quality excellence in a landmark defence programme. With a strong focus on employee growth, we provide generous benefits including a matched pension scheme, health consultations, and unique initiatives like Be Kind Day for volunteering. Join us to be part of a global FTSE 100 organisation that values work-life balance and fosters an inclusive culture, ensuring your contributions are vital to national security and public infrastructure.
