Internal Quality Assurer in Salisbury

Location: Tidworth, Salisbury, GB, SP9 7QD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Overview

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Internal Quality Assurer supporting our MOD Apprenticeships programme across the South of England. As an Internal Quality Assurer, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining the quality, consistency, and compliance of our apprenticeship and training programmes. Working closely with delivery teams, you’ll help drive continuous improvement, support learner success, and ensure assessment and teaching standards meet awarding organisation, funding, regulatory, and inspection requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to influence training excellence across a large and diverse apprenticeship provision, helping to develop the next generation of skilled engineering professionals supporting the UK's defence sector. This is a full-time, permanent role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. The role offers hybrid working arrangements and will involve travel to apprenticeship sites across the South of England.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Conducting quality assurance activities across apprenticeship and training programmes.
• Observing teaching, learning and assessment sessions and providing constructive feedback to delivery staff.
• Producing and managing sampling plans based on risk, compliance and quality requirements.
• Supporting assessors and trainers through coaching, mentoring and continuous improvement activities.
• Leading standardisation activities and promoting best practice across the wider team.

Essential experience

• Experience working as an Internal Quality Assurer within apprenticeship or work-based learning environments.
• Experience within a mechanical engineering or related engineering environment.
• Strong understanding of apprenticeship delivery and work-based learning programmes.
• Experience monitoring quality standards, compliance requirements and learner outcomes.
• Ability to build effective relationships and provide professional support to delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice (or equivalent).
• Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (or equivalent).
• Level 3 qualification in Engineering or a related discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we offer

• 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, allowing employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave. This window opens February through to March annually.
• Be Kind Day, enabling 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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 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.