Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title:                     Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:                     City, County + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £45,692 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF70789

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 Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll help ensure that some of the UK’s most important marine and defence engineering programmes are delivered safely, effectively and to the highest standards. You’ll play a key role in supporting the Principal Quality Assurance Engineer to assess compliance across management systems, drive improvements in quality performance, and provide expert support that helps keep people, platforms and operations safe.

Day-to-day, you’ll work across multiple project areas, interact with internal and external stakeholders, and shape how quality assurance is applied across complex marine environments. It’s an opportunity to deepen your expertise, strengthen your technical leadership and be part of work that directly supports national security.

• Support customer‑facing interactions and reviews relating to quality requirements.


• Assist the Principal Quality Assurance Engineer in measuring and reviewing compliance with contractual, company and ISO9001 requirements.


• Provide expertise to supply chain teams by collecting and analysing supplier quality data.


• Conduct reactive audits, investigations and supplier surveillance visits.


• Review quality documentation, including Project Quality Plans, procurement documentation and contract amendments.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements may require travel across a range of internal and customer sites

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• Experience managing quality assurance and quality control within an engineering sector, including supply chain.


• Demonstrated application of problem‑solving and/or lean tools.


• Experience supporting complex assurance requirements relating to systems requiring enhanced quality, safety or assurance.


• Competence reviewing technical documentation and understanding engineering processes.


• Strong communicator with an aptitude for learning new methods, techniques and principles.

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

• HNC/HND (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (Engineering preferred)


• QMS Lead Auditor Course (UKAS accredited)

• Additional quality or audit‑related certifications - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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 [email protected] 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: 04/02/2026

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