Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer to lead supplier quality assurance and continuous improvement across its procurement and supply chain. The role involves auditing suppliers, approving documentation, and driving root-cause investigations to ensure right-first-time delivery of critical defence and engineering goods.

Based at Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre, the role offers hybrid working and requires eligibility for BPSS/SC clearance.

Qualifications

• Quality management experience in an engineering environment.
• Proficient in applying lean and continuous improvement principles.
• Proficient in conducting quality investigations.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier quality assurance and continuous improvement across Group Procurement and Supply Chain.
• Audit suppliers on site to verify contractual and quality requirements.
• Approve supplier documentation and oversee control points and source releases.
• Investigate non-conformances, identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Drive lean and continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers to optimise quality, cost, delivery and schedule.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure product conformity throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Quality management

Lean operations

Continuous improvement

Quality investigations

Education

Level 5 engineering/science qualification or demonstrable equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73958

Shape Supplier Excellence That Powers Defence, Aerospace and Engineering.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre Sites.

We value difference and inclusion, and we’re committed to creating an environment where everyone is supported to thrive and grow

The role

As a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, you’ll take the lead on supplier quality assurance and continuous improvement across our Group Procurement and Supply Chain function. It’s a role with real impact, offering scope to build your expertise across complex engineering supply chains while developing your career in a performance-driven, inclusive organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll raise standards, reduce risk and drive "right-first-time" delivery of mission‑critical goods and services contributing to projects that protect national security and public infrastructure.

• Audit suppliers on site to verify compliance with contractual and quality requirements and support effective flow-down of those requirements.
• Approve supplier documentation (e.g., Inspection & Test Plans), witness control points and oversee special process approvals and source releases.
• Lead investigations into non‑conformance, identify root causes and implement corrective and preventive actions that stick.
• Drive lean and continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers to optimise quality, cost, delivery and schedule performance.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure product conformity and robust assurance throughout the lifecycle.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

• Quality Management experience within an engineering environment.
• Proficient in the application of lean and continuous improvement principles.
• Proficient in conducting quality investigations.

Qualifications for the Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

• Relevant Level 5 qualification or demonstrable experience in a relevant engineering/scientific discipline and a Level 4 qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 share scheme
• 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 the majority of 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 (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity babcockint...tional.com
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock International

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: 29/10/2026