As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll play a vital role in ensuring quality, compliance and continuous improvement across submarine support and engineering services. Working within a highly regulated environment, you'll provide independent assurance and expert guidance across production, project and supply chain activities, helping to maintain the highest standards of safety, performance and operational excellence. Day-to-day, you'll have an exciting opportunity to develop your career within the defence and engineering sector, supporting programmes that are critical to national security. You'll work with a broad range of stakeholders, influence quality performance across major projects and help shape quality culture throughout the business.
- Conducting product, process and supplier audits to verify compliance with quality management systems and customer requirements.
- Supporting quality assurance activities across projects, production operations and supply chain partners.
- Identifying quality risks, non-conformances and improvement opportunities, and driving effective corrective actions.
- Reviewing quality documentation, specifications, quality plans and quality records to ensure compliance and governance requirements are met.
- Providing professional quality advice and assurance to project teams, suppliers, customers and key stakeholders.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
A Senior Quality Practitioner - Governance and Assurance is a senior-level professional role in the Quality Governance and Assurance discipline of the Quality role family. This role requires in-depth knowledge, expertise and multiple years experience of professional practice within this discipline. This role undertakes complex and non-routine professional assignments with minimal supervision and may provide leadership to more junior roles,
Requirements
- Experience in Quality Assurance within the nuclear industry or another highly regulated industry.
- Strong understanding of quality management systems, including ISO 9001 requirements.
- Experience conducting product, process and supplier audits.
- Experience identifying non-conformances and managing corrective and preventive actions.
- Experience supporting quality assurance activities across projects, manufacturing, operational environments or supply chains., IRCA Certified Lead Auditor qualification.
- Relevant Level 5 qualification recognised professional status, or significant experience within a relevant engineering or scientific discipline supported by a Level 4 qualification.
Preferred
- Additional qualifications or professional development in quality management, engineering, auditing or continuous improvement disciplines.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
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 Assurance Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site., 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.
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
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Senior Quality Assurance Engineer in Plymouth employer: Babcock International
Babcock is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee well-being and career development, offering a flexible hybrid working environment in the UK. With generous benefits such as a matched pension scheme, professional fee coverage, and unique initiatives like 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering, Babcock fosters a supportive and inclusive culture where employees can thrive while contributing to vital national security projects.
