Quality Lead

Babcock International; Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee shopping savings portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock in Rosyth is seeking a Quality Lead to build and lead the quality function for a major international shipbuilding programme. You will establish governance, assurance frameworks, and compliance processes across UK and overseas operations.

Day-to-day you will develop quality plans, oversee supplier quality, act as the key contact for customers and auditors, monitor performance through audits and improvements, and mentor teams within a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Senior quality leadership or programme quality experience in shipbuilding, marine, or complex engineering environments.
• Strong knowledge of Quality Management Systems, QA methodologies, auditing and CI.
• Experience creating and implementing quality plans and governance for large programmes.
• Knowledge of certification, regulatory and classification body requirements; engage customers/auditors/stakeholders.
• Experience managing supplier quality and driving performance in complex delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain programme quality plans, assurance processes and governance frameworks.
• Lead quality oversight across suppliers, subcontractors and delivery teams for contractual/regulatory compliance.
• Act as the main point of contact for quality matters with customers, certification bodies and internal stakeholders.
• Monitor quality performance via audits, inspections, reporting and corrective actions.
• Build, mentor and influence quality teams and promote a strong quality culture.

Skills

Quality leadership

Quality management

Auditing

ISO 9001

Supplier quality

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering degree

Lead Auditor

Quality Management Certification

Job description

Job Title: Quality Lead

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76108

Shape Quality Excellence on a Major International Shipbuilding 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 Quality Lead at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Quality Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll have a rare opportunity to build and lead the quality function for a complex international shipbuilding programme. This is a highly influential role where you'll establish quality governance, assurance frameworks, and compliance processes that support successful programme delivery across both the United Kingdom and overseas operations.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Developing and maintaining programme quality plans, assurance processes, and governance frameworks.
• Leading quality oversight across suppliers, subcontractors, and delivery teams to ensure compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Acting as the key point of contact for quality matters with customers, certification bodies, and internal stakeholders.
• Monitoring quality performance through audits, inspections, reporting, and corrective action activities to drive continuous improvement.
• Building, mentoring, and influencing quality teams while promoting a strong quality culture across the programme.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based at Rosyth with hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Quality Lead

• Experience in a senior quality leadership, quality management, or programme quality role within shipbuilding, marine, manufacturing, or complex engineering environments.
• Strong knowledge of Quality Management Systems, quality assurance methodologies, auditing processes, and continuous improvement principles.
• Experience developing and implementing quality plans, governance frameworks, and assurance processes across large-scale programmes or projects.
• Knowledge of certification, regulatory, and classification body requirements, with experience engaging customers, auditors, and assurance stakeholders.
• Experience managing supplier quality, influencing cross-functional teams, and driving quality performance within complex delivery environments.

Qualifications for the Quality Lead

• Degree, Higher National Diploma, Higher National Certificate, or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Quality Management, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline.
• Lead Auditor qualification or demonstrable experience conducting quality audits.
• Qualification or certification in Quality Management, Continuous Improvement, or a related discipline.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 and Quality Management Systems within engineering or manufacturing environments.
• Evidence of continued professional development in quality, engineering, compliance, or operational excellence.

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: 16/10/2026

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