Senior Supplier Quality Specialist

Babcock International; West Devon; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Be Kind Day

Reservists leave

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Babcock International seeks a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer to lead supplier quality assurance across our procurement and supply chain, including Devonport Royal Dockyard or Technology Centre sites, with hybrid working options.

You will audit suppliers on site, approve inspection plans, investigate non-conformances, and drive corrective actions while collaborating with internal stakeholders to ensure product conformity and robust lifecycle assurance for mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Quality management

Lean

Continuous improvement

Quality investigations

Education

Level 5 in engineering/science

Level 4 in engineering/science

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: SF7398 5

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

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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: 15/09/2026