Hybrid Quality Assurance Engineer

at Babcock International Group

• Job title: Quality Assurance Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £39,607 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Plymouth, United Kingdom

About the role

• Quality Assurance Engineer ensuring compliance for engineering in UK's submarines and warships. Role involves oversight and collaboration to meet safety and reliability standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the engineering, infrastructure and facilities supporting the maintenance of the UK’s submarines and warships are delivered to the highest standards of safety, reliability and regulatory compliance.
• Grow capability in quality assurance, engineering oversight and stakeholder collaboration across multiple high-profile projects.
• Provide guidance and support to project teams to ensure quality planning, installation, commissioning and handover meet defined standards.
• Support the development, review and implementation of Quality Management Plans and Inspection and Test Plans during project phases.
• Oversee project and supply chain compliance with quality requirements, ensuring that deliverables meet regulatory and business expectations.
• Ensure Life Time Quality Records provide assured evidence that plant, equipment and infrastructure meet design intent.
• Support Senior Quality Assurance Engineers in delivering project lifecycle assurance activities.

Requirements

• Experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Control techniques within an engineering environment, including working with supply chain partners.
• Knowledge of change management, document management and quality governance, including awareness of improvement programmes.
• Understanding of national, international, statutory and regulatory obligations relating to Quality Management.
• Experience engaging with stakeholders and contributing to engineering assurance activities.
• Knowledge or experience of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System requirements, with desirable qualifications or training in auditing, inspection, quality management, or defence/nuclear/infrastructure environments.
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an engineering or quality discipline.
• Completed apprenticeship in an Engineering discipline.
• Must be a sole UK National able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance.

Benefits

• 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 allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year for volunteering work
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.