Quality Assurance Practitioner

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

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 our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

As a Quality Assurance Practitioner, you’ll provide independent quality assurance across submarine‑related projects and activities, ensuring that all work carried out is compliant, robust and fit for purpose. This is a role with real responsibility, where your attention to detail and professional judgement directly protect safety, reliability and operational readiness.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with engineering teams, project stakeholders and regulatory bodies, reviewing work documentation, auditing activity on board submarines and assuring compliance with strict technical and quality requirements. In return, you’ll gain valuable experience in a highly regulated environment, strengthen your quality career pathway and contribute to work that genuinely matters to national defence.

• 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

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office/onsite.

• 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

• NVQ Level 3, or equivalent qualification, in an engineering discipline
• Quality assurance experience or qualifications within a regulated environment
  - Desirable
• Knowledge of Ministry of Defence “Through Life” documentation requirements and submarines
  - Advantageous

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.

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 -  ().

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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 car 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: 04/05/2026