Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title:                      Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:                      Rosyth, Fife

Compensation:            £45,284 - £52,872 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent 

Role ID:                         SF72815

Help shape the future of defence engineering

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 Rosyth site.

The role

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring that some of the UK’s most advanced engineering and marine programmes meet the highest standards of safety, performance and regulatory compliance. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of defence engineering—contributing to projects that protect national security while growing your technical expertise and leadership capability.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Provide day‑to‑day tasking and deliver key Quality Assurance activities.
• Execute audit schedule requirements, including internal, inspection, third‑party and customer audits.
• Develop and maintain Quality Assurance procedures and processes that support project delivery and the wider Marine sector.
• Carry out detailed quality investigations to support safe and compliant project execution.
• Compile reports, analyse quality trends and data, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Strong, in‑depth knowledge of Quality Assurance fundamentals.
• Proven ability to review, develop and improve processes.
• Demonstrable experience in a Quality Assurance role.
• Leadership or management experience within a quality‑focused environment.
• Highly organised and able to meet deadlines and contractual obligations.

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Qualified to a recognised trade standard and relevant academic level (HNC/SVQ Level 3).
• Minimum Lead Auditor qualification.
• Affiliation or working towards affiliation with the Chartered Quality Institute.

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: 16/04/2026