Quality Assurance Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 39,000; Full time

Job description

Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer
Compensation: £38,084 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63720

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 have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join us to provide Quality Assurance across Company activities, ensuring Platforms and Infrastructure meet customer expectations and comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide oversight and support for upgrades, maintenance, and modifications to Facilities, Infrastructure, and Assets, ensuring they meet through-life requirements to sustain submarine and warship maintenance activities.

• Advise Project Stakeholders on quality planning, delivery, and handover in line with Business Management arrangements.
• Assist in the development and review of Quality Management Plans (QMPs) and Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs) during project planning.
• Support Project and Supply Chain in fulfilling ITP and QMP requirements, ensuring oversight of deliverable documents and records.
• Ensure Life Time Quality Records (LTQRs) effectively demonstrate achievement of design intent for plant, equipment, and infrastructure.
• Aid Senior Quality Assurance Engineers in delivering lifecycle quality assurance activities.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Quality Assurance Engineer

• Experience in Quality Assurance and Control methods within the Engineering sector, including supply chain operations.
• Understanding of change management, document management, and improvement initiatives.
• Awareness of national, international, statutory, and regulatory obligations related to Quality Management and Assurance.
• Knowledge / Experience of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System requirements.

Qualifications for the Quality Assurance Engineer

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an engineering or quality discipline
• Completed a recognised apprenticeship in an Engineering discipline

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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 International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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.