Job Description

Job Title: Welding QA QC Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £33,900 - £48,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75181

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 Welding QAQC Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Welding QAQC Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the quality, integrity and safety of critical welding activities that support some of the UK's most important defence programmes. Working within a highly skilled engineering environment, you'll help maintain the standards that underpin submarine and surface ship maintenance and construction, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently and to the highest levels of compliance.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to combine your welding and fabrication expertise with quality assurance and engineering best practice. You'll work alongside technical specialists, project teams and customers, contributing directly to programmes that support national security while developing your own professional capability within a world-class engineering organisation.

• Producing welding quality assurance documentation, Weld Information Sheets and method statements for repair and emergent work activities.
• Reviewing welding and non-destructive testing quality packs prior to final acceptance.
• Conducting visual inspections before, during and after welding activities to ensure compliance with quality requirements and standards.
• Advising managers, project engineers, frontline teams and customer representatives on welding methods, repairs and quality-related matters.
• Supporting the development of welding procedures, process improvements and quality assurance initiatives across the business.

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

Essential experience of the Welding QA QC Engineer

• Extensive practical welding and fabrication experience within a heavy engineering, marine, defence, manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strong knowledge of welding processes, techniques and associated quality requirements.
• Experience interpreting engineering drawings, welding joints and welding symbols.
• Experience creating welding documentation, including Weld Information Sheets and quality records.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly and apply relevant welding standards and acceptance criteria.

Qualifications for the Welding QA QC Engineer

• Craft Apprenticeship, City & Guilds in Fabrication/Engineering Discipline or equivalent
• Qualified to CSWIP 3:1 in Visual Weld Inspection - Desirable. (Training offered in post)
• Radiation Worker and Confined Space entry (Training offered in post)
• NSQAC desirable. (Training offered in post)
• Nuclear Plant Foundation (Training offered in post)

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.

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: 26/08/2026

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