At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure quality assurance across submarine projects, reviewing documentation and conducting audits.
- Company: Join Babcock, a leader in national defence and safety.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension scheme, health support, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Hybrid working with a supportive and inclusive culture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while advancing your quality assurance career.
- Qualifications: Experience in quality assurance within regulated environments and strong analytical skills.
The predicted salary is between 33900 - 42400 £ per year.
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Safeguard standards that keep the nation’s submarines safe and secure. 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 Quality Assurance Practitioner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role:
- Provide independent quality assurance across submarine‑related projects and activities, ensuring that all work carried out is compliant, robust and fit for purpose.
- Work closely with engineering teams, project stakeholders and regulatory bodies, reviewing work documentation, auditing activity on board submarines and assuring compliance with strict technical and quality requirements.
In return, you’ll gain valuable experience in a highly regulated environment, strengthen your quality career pathway and contribute to work that genuinely matters to national defence.
Key responsibilities:
- Providing quality assurance support across submarine projects and technical activities.
- Reviewing and approving work documentation in line with regulatory and customer requirements.
- Auditing submarine records, procedures and first‑level documentation.
- Vetting completed work authorisations and nuclear procedures for compliance.
- Carrying out on‑board audits and conformance checks against agreed standards.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office/onsite.
Essential experience:
- Practical experience applying quality assurance principles in a regulated engineering or technical environment.
- Strong understanding of continuous improvement techniques such as root cause analysis.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, standards and procedures.
- Experience producing clear quality reports using office or engineering software tools.
- Experience supporting quality activities within complex projects or operations.
Qualifications:
- NVQ Level 3, or equivalent qualification, in an engineering discipline.
- Quality assurance experience or qualifications within a regulated environment - Desirable.
- Knowledge of Ministry of Defence “Through Life” documentation requirements and submarines - Advantageous.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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 share scheme.
- 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.
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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: 04/05/2026
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Babcock is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth, where you can contribute to national defence while enjoying hybrid working arrangements. With a strong focus on employee development, generous benefits including a matched pension scheme and health support, and a commitment to inclusivity and flexibility, we empower our Quality Assurance Practitioners to thrive in their careers and make a meaningful impact.
