About the role

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer ensuring quality assurance across complex marine environments. Supporting the Principal Quality Assurance Engineer in delivering compliance and safety in significant defence projects.

Responsibilities

Help ensure that some of the UK’s most important marine and defence engineering programmes are delivered safely, effectively and to the highest standards.
Support 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.
Work across multiple project areas, interact with internal and external stakeholders, and shape how quality assurance is applied across complex marine environments.
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.

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.
HNC/HND (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (Engineering preferred)
QMS Lead Auditor Course (UKAS accredited)
Additional quality or audit‑related certifications - Desirable
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.

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.