Job Title: Quality Assurance Practitioner
Location: Plymouth, Devon (Hybrid Working Arrangements)
Compensation: £33,900 – £42,400 (depending on experience) + benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73153
Role Overview
Safeguard standards that keep the nation’s submarines safe and secure.
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 Practitioner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
Responsibilities
- Providing quality assurance support across submarine projects and technical activities
- Reviewing and approving work documentation in line with regulatory and customer requirements
- Auditing submarine records, procedures and first‑level documentation
- Vetting completed work authorisations and nuclear procedures for compliance
- Carrying out on‑board audits and conformance checks against agreed standards
Essential Experience
- Practical experience applying quality assurance principles in a regulated engineering or technical environment
- Strong understanding of continuous improvement techniques such as root cause analysis
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, standards and procedures
- Experience producing clear quality reports using office or engineering software tools
- Experience supporting quality activities within complex projects or operations
Qualifications
- Practical experience applying quality assurance principles in a regulated engineering or technical environment
- Strong understanding of continuous improvement techniques such as root cause analysis
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, standards and procedures
- Experience producing clear quality reports using office or engineering software tools
- Experience supporting quality activities within complex projects or operations
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who can achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.
Many positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. 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 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. There is an annual window to request this benefit. 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
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.
Closing date: 04/05/2026
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