Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title:                     Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:                     Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF68424

Create a safer, more secure world with a career that shapes the future

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 Quality Assurance Engineer at Walsall, near Birmingham, West Midlands.

The role

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will help strengthen quality standards across a diverse range of specialist vehicle conversion projects. From supporting police fleets to contributing to armoured military vehicles designed to protect lives, your work will directly support national defence and public safety. This role will expand your technical capability while enabling you to influence quality performance across the team.

Day to day you will be required to:

• Undertake investigations into identified issues and develop quality plans
• Implement solutions for new business opportunities and proposals
• Collaborate with internal teams and government customers
• Develop, implement and monitor quality standards and processes
• Identify opportunities to optimise processes and improve efficiency

The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday with an early finish on Fridays, totalling 37.5 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer:

• Experience in quality control, evaluation and improvement in low or high volume production
• Understanding of customer requirements relating to quality assurance and improvement
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings including GD&T
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Proficiency in quality tools including FMEA, SPC, PPAP, MSA and 8D

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer:

• Degree in engineering, quality management or a related field or equivalent experience

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and Security Check (SC) and NPPV 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. 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
• 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: 16/02/2026

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