Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Babcock • Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD • 1w ago

Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: £45,284 - £52,872 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74388

Shape the future of quality in critical engineering programmes

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 Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring that some of the United Kingdom’s most complex engineering programmes meet the highest standards of safety, quality, and regulatory compliance. Working within our Marine sector, you’ll help drive continuous improvement and quality excellence across projects that support national defence and critical infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

Deliver quality assurance activities and provide day-to-day guidance across projects
Conduct internal, supplier, and customer audits in line with the audit schedule
Develop and improve quality processes and procedures across programmes
Lead detailed quality investigations and support corrective actions
Analyse quality data and produce reports to identify trends and drive improvement

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Friday and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Demonstrable experience in quality assurance within an engineering or manufacturing environment
Experience leading or supervising quality activities or teams
Strong understanding of quality assurance principles and standards
Proven ability to review, improve, and implement processes
High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Qualified to a recognised trade standard with a relevant academic qualification such as HNC or SVQ Level 3
Lead Auditor qualification
Membership or working towards membership of the Chartered Quality Institute desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 (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

Babcock

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.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 29/06/2026

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