Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title:                     Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:            From £58,100.  Salary negotiable dependant on experience

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF61927

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, Plymouth site.

The Role

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to support Babcock with delivering our purpose of Creating a Safe and Secure World Together through the production and manufacture of high-performance civilian and military vehicles and other exciting projects within the futures pipeline.

Day to day, you’ll be part of the Quality and Improvement Management Team, to provide assurance at all levels of the business that vehicles (an products) are being developed and delivered to the correct quality levels, ensuring also, compliance with the necessary contractual flow downs and legislative requirements.

• Conduct audits and inspections to ensure adherence to quality systems (ISO 9001, Six Sigma, etc.).
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective/preventive actions (CAPA) and identify opportunities for process optimization to reduce defects and improve efficiency.
• Maintain and update quality documentation, including manuals, procedures, and reports.
• Track and analyse data to identify trends and drive decisions and prepare detailed reports on quality metrics and performance for management review.
• Compile Product Quality Plans.
• Co-ordinate site action responses and provide periodic reports on corrective action plans and progress to external bodies such as DNV, DQAFF, SMF, DVSA

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport, Plymouth and requires regular travel to our Walsall site on a bi-monthly basis.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Demonstrable experience and success in quality control/assurance, evaluation, and improvement in an automotive/defence production environment.
• Experience in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), requirements definition and understanding of the customer context and requirements with regards to quality control, assurance, evaluation, and improvement.
• Ability to develop/compile Product Quality Plans (PQP).
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings including Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Experience in applying statistical analysis to data.
• Proficiency in quality tools (e.g., FMEA, SPC, PPAP, MSA, 8D’s, 5 why’s, DMAIC, Ishikawa fish bone diagrams etc.
• Practical knowledge of quality management systems (QMS) and compliance standards including ISO9001, or ISO/TS16949 and/or AS/EN 9100.

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience required, we would like to hear from you.

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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 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:04/04/25