At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure quality and compliance in submarine support and engineering services.
- Company: Join Babcock, a global leader in defence and engineering.
- Benefits: Generous holiday allowance, pension scheme, and health benefits.
- Other info: Flexible working options and commitment to inclusivity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security and public infrastructure.
- Qualifications: Experience in Quality Assurance and relevant qualifications required.
The predicted salary is between 44600 - 55800 £ per year.
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.
The role involves 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.
Essential experience:
- 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.
Qualifications:
Essential:
- 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.
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 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 to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
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 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: 08/09/2026
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