Assistant Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

Job Title:                     Assistant Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF73309

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 Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Assistant Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer, you’ll support the delivery and continual improvement of our Quality Management System, ensuring welding and engineering activities meet rigorous quality, safety and regulatory standards. This is a hands‑on role where attention to detail, technical understanding and collaboration are key.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with engineering and production teams, supporting inspections, documentation, surveillance activities and corrective actions. It’s an excellent opportunity to build your quality engineering career within a highly regulated environment, developing specialist skills while contributing to safe, compliant and efficient project delivery across defence and nuclear programmes.

• Supporting quality management activities, helping implement and maintain ISO‑aligned QMS procedures
• Assisting inspections and compliance checks, reviewing documentation and supporting internal surveillance
• Monitoring corrective and preventive actions, following up with engineering and production teams
• Analysing quality data, identifying trends, deviations and opportunities for improvement
• Collaborating with stakeholders, contributing to safe, compliant welding and engineering delivery

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

here is an opportunity for Optimised Working Patterns (OWP) within this role. OWP is a temporary variation to your standard terms and condition that commits you to support 7-day working arrangements. For full details of the patterns, pay and durations, this can be found in the OWP 1 and OWP 2 agreements (available from hiring manager).

Primarily, it involves 4-week shift cycles consisting of either day/back shift or day/night shift.

Essential experience of the Assistant Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

• Experience using quality management systems or document control tools such as SharePoint or SAP
• Basic knowledge of inspection techniques, engineering drawings and product specifications
• Understanding of quality control procedures and regulatory or industry standards
• Ability to analyse quality data and support problem‑solving activities
• Experience working to deadlines while managing multiple tasks

Qualifications for the Assistant Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

• Craft apprenticeship, City and Guilds, or equivalent qualification in an engineering or fabrication discipline
• Working knowledge of quality frameworks such as ISO 9001 or ISO 3834‑2 - Desirable
• Exposure to quality improvement or internal surveillance activities – Advantageous

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 07/05/2026

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