Location:
Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG
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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £33,900 – £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74700
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 join the Facilities and Infrastructure Quality Assurance team, helping to provide independent assurance that critical assets, facilities and infrastructure meet customer, statutory and regulatory requirements. Your work will support the projects and systems that enable the maintenance and sustainment of the Royal Navy's submarines and warships.
Day-to-day, you’ll work across the project lifecycle, supporting quality planning, installation, commissioning and handover activities while helping ensure that infrastructure upgrades and modifications are delivered in line with quality standards and design intent. Your contribution will play a key role in maintaining operational readiness and supporting national security.
Supporting quality assurance activities across facilities, infrastructure and engineering projects.
Providing guidance on quality planning, installation, commissioning and handover activities to project stakeholders.
Verifying that project outputs meet defined quality standards, specifications and design intent.
Supporting the development and implementation of Quality Management Plans and Inspection & Test Plans.
Maintaining robust quality records and contributing to audits, risk management and continuous improvement activities.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements
Essential experience of the Quality Assurance Engineer
Knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems.
Experience of quality assurance and quality control techniques within an engineering environment, including supply chain activities.
Experience supporting Quality Management Plans and Inspection & Test Plans.
Understanding of audit processes, quality assurance methodologies and risk management principles.
Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and continuous improvement skills, with knowledge of techniques such as root cause analysis, Lean, Six Sigma or Kaizen.
Qualifications for the Quality Assurance Engineer
Completed recognised apprenticeship in an engineering discipline.
NVQ Level 3, or equivalent, in an engineering or quality discipline.
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
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
[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: 22/07/2026
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