Senior Quality Manager in Kirkcaldy

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.
• Developing and implementing a robust quality management strategy aligned to business and programme goals.
• Overseeing quality control and assurance processes to ensure compliance with industry standards and customer requirements.
• 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.

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.

Closing date: 11/03/2026