Quality Assurance Engineer

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 ().

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 benefit allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or 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 organization or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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 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