Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll provide independent quality assurance across major defence infrastructure and engineering projects within Devonport Royal Dockyard. This is a highly respected role, offering influence without delivery bias, allowing you to challenge, assure and strengthen quality outcomes from early design through construction, installation, commissioning and handover. Day-to-day, you'll work alongside programme and project teams, acting as a trusted authority who helps ensure compliance with stringent internal controls, regulatory obligations and external standards. Your insight will directly improve safety, reliability and long-term asset performance, while giving you broad exposure to complex, high-value defence programmes and strengthening your professional credibility.

• Providing quality leadership and independent assurance across multiple engineering and infrastructure projects
• Reviewing Quality Management Plans, Inspection and Test Plans and Lifetime Quality Records
• Supporting project teams with quality guidance throughout execution and delivery phases
• Conducting internal and external audits and supporting third-party assessments
• Managing non-conformities, corrective actions and continuous improvement activities
This role is full time, 35 is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.


• Extensive experience in quality assurance and quality control within engineering or construction environments
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems
• Experience operating within regulated environments, including defence or nuclear settings
• Proven auditing experience with the ability to challenge and assure effectively
• Demonstrated capability in risk identification, analysis and quality improvement
Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
• A recognised professional qualification in Quality Management
• Certified Lead Auditor status
• NVQ Level 4 or recognised professional status, or significant engineering experience supported by NVQ Level 3 in an engineering discipline
Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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.

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