Assistant Welding QAQC Engineer

weServed; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

10 days special paid leave for Reserv

Holiday Trading system

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Assistant QAQC Engineer role at Babcock's Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth. You’ll support robust quality assurance and control activities across a complex engineering environment, working with welding and quality professionals to uphold standards and compliance for national defence programmes.

You’ll gain experience in regulated engineering activities, develop technical knowledge, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives with a clear impact on operational capability.

Qualifications

• Experience using quality management systems and controlled documentation processes.
• Understanding of quality assurance, quality control and compliance requirements within an engineering environment.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications and technical documentation.
• Experience analysing information and identifying opportunities for process improvement.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the implementation and maintenance of quality management system procedures and documentation.
• Assisting with surveillance activities, compliance reviews and quality audits across engineering operations.
• Monitoring corrective and preventive actions and supporting their effective close-out.
• Reviewing quality records, engineering documentation and inspection data to ensure compliance requirements are met.
• Analysing quality performance data and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Quality management systems

Quality assurance

Quality control

Documentation control

Education

Craft Apprenticeship, City & Guilds qualification in fabrication, welding or engineering

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Quality Assurance and Quality Control Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76215

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant QAQC (Quality Assurance and Quality Control) Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Assistant QAQC Engineer, you’ll support the delivery of robust quality assurance and quality control activities across a complex engineering environment. Working alongside experienced welding and quality professionals, you'll help maintain the standards, processes and compliance requirements that underpin critical defence programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop a career in quality engineering, welding assurance and continuous improvement. You'll gain exposure to highly regulated engineering activities, develop specialist technical knowledge and contribute to projects that have a direct impact on national defence and operational capability.

• Supporting the implementation and maintenance of quality management system procedures and documentation.
• Assisting with surveillance activities, compliance reviews and quality audits across engineering operations.
• Monitoring corrective and preventive actions and supporting their effective close-out.
• Reviewing quality records, engineering documentation and inspection data to ensure compliance requirements are met.
• Analysing quality performance data and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

This role is full time, 35, per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Assistant QAQC Engineer

• Experience using quality management systems and controlled documentation processes.
• Understanding of quality assurance, quality control and compliance requirements within an engineering environment.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications and technical documentation.
• Experience analysing information and identifying opportunities for process improvement.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Qualifications for the Assistant QAQC Engineer

• Craft Apprenticeship, City & Guilds qualification in a fabrication, welding or engineering discipline, or equivalent qualifications and experience.

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. 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 29,000 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 [e-mail] 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: 05/11/2026

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