Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Babcock International; West Devon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth. The role focuses on quality assurance, compliance and continuous improvement across submarine support and engineering services in a highly regulated environment.

You will lead audits, advise project teams and drive corrective actions to maintain safety, performance and operational excellence across production, projects and supply chains.

Qualifications

• IRCA Lead Auditor qualification is essential.
• A Level 5 qualification or substantial experience with a Level 4 qualification is required.
• Experience in QA within a nuclear or highly regulated environment is essential.
• Experience conducting product, process and supplier audits is required.
• Experience identifying non-conformances and managing corrective actions is necessary.
• Ability to provide professional QA guidance to project teams, suppliers and customers.

Responsibilities

• Conduct product, process and supplier audits to verify quality management system conformance.
• Support QA activities across projects, manufacturing, operations and supply chains.
• Identify quality risks, non-conformances and drive corrective/preventive actions.
• Review quality documentation, specifications and quality records for compliance.
• Provide expert QA advice and assurance to project teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Auditing

Regulatory compliance

Quality assurance

ISO 9001

Stakeholder management

Education

IRCA Lead Auditor qualification

Level 5 qualification or significant experience with Level 4 qualification

Job description

Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF75714

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

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll play a vital role in 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 of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• 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 for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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.

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 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 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: 08/09/2026

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