Senior quality assurance engineer

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

We’re 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