Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title:                     Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £39,607 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF70733

Play a vital role in safeguarding the future of the UK's defence and engineering infrastructure

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 Assurance Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll be central to ensuring that the engineering, infrastructure and facilities supporting the maintenance of the UK’s submarines and warships are delivered to the highest standards of safety, reliability and regulatory compliance.

Day-to-day, you’ll grow your capability in quality assurance, engineering oversight and stakeholder collaboration across multiple high-profile projects.

• Provide guidance and support to project teams to ensure quality planning, installation, commissioning and handover meet defined standards.
• Support the development, review and implementation of Quality Management Plans and Inspection and Test Plans during project phases.
• Oversee project and supply chain compliance with quality requirements, ensuring that deliverables meet regulatory and business expectations.
• Ensure Life Time Quality Records provide assured evidence that plant, equipment and infrastructure meet design intent.
• Support Senior Quality Assurance Engineers in delivering project lifecycle assurance activities.

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

Essential experience of the Quality Assurance Engineer

• Experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Control techniques within an engineering environment, including working with supply chain partners.
• Knowledge of change management, document management and quality governance, including awareness of improvement programmes.
• Understanding of national, international, statutory and regulatory obligations relating to Quality Management.
• Experience engaging with stakeholders and contributing to engineering assurance activities.
• Knowledge or experience of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System requirements, with desirable qualifications or training in auditing, inspection, quality management, or defence/nuclear/infrastructure environments.

Qualifications for the Quality Assurance Engineer

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an engineering or quality discipline.
• Completed apprenticeship in an Engineering discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 09/03/2026

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