Project Quality Lead

Job Title: Project Quality Lead

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £56,570 – £66,229 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71282

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 Project Quality Lead at our Rosyth site

The role

As a Project Quality Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring that some of the UK’s most advanced engineering programmes continue to meet the highest standards of safety, performance and regulatory compliance. This is a role with real purpose your leadership will ensure quality throughout critical manufacturing processes and help shape a culture where excellence is embedded in everything we do.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Lead and support the Quality Programme for Advance Manufacturing, ensuring outputs meet customer and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee all quality assurance and quality control deliverables, ensuring they are completed as per contractual and schedule obligations.
• Serve as the main quality contact for customers and internal stakeholders, managing daily liaison and investigating concerns.
• Govern key quality processes including audits, non‑conformance management, corrective and preventative actions, and certification/handover requirements.
• Positive mentoring of team members, and championing a strong quality culture across the organisation,influencing teams at all levels.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Project Quality Lead

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with customers, suppliers and internal teams.
• Proven experience in legal and regulatory compliance within a regulated environment.
• Demonstrable background in quality assurance and quality control.
• Experience managing or supervising teams within a technical or engineering environment.

Qualifications for the Project Quality Lead

• HNC (or equivalent) in Engineering, Welding, Manufacturing or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of welding and manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrable experience delivering QA/QC activities in a leadership capacity.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC & PSA) 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 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: 13/03/2026