Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

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Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

Location:

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65706

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 Quality Assurance and Control Engineer (QAQC) at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As aWelding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Join our Welding QAQC Engineering team, delivering critical welding assurance across Devonport and UK projects. Enjoy clear paths for career growth in an agile, technically driven environment that champions collaboration and development.

Day-to-day, you'll conduct welding inspections and oversees QAQC activities to ensure standards compliance, maintain documentation, support traceability, and drive continuous improvement in fabrication and repair.

• Produce welding quality assurance documentation, including Weld Information Sheets and method statements for emergent or repair work
• Review welding and Non Destructive Testing (NDT) quality packs for compliance prior to final approval
• Recommend optimal welding and repair methods balancing quality, efficiency, and cost
• Monitor welding activities to ensure adherence to Babcock Quality Management System and BS EN ISO 3834-2 standards
• Perform visual weld inspections and support technical discussions with teams and clients, drawing on practical fabrication and pipework experience

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

Essential experience of the Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

• Strong knowledge of welding processes, materials, and fabrication techniques across structural and pipe systems on submarines and surface ships
• Proficient in reading engineering drawings, interpreting weld symbols, and applying relevant welding standards and acceptance criteria
• Familiar with BS EN ISO 3834-2 quality requirements and the QAQC responsibilities essential to welding assurance
• Experienced in producing welding documentation (e.g. Weld Information Sheets) and solving technical challenges with clarity and precision
• Effective communicator with good computer literacy, and practical experience or understanding of hands-on welding work preferred

Qualifications for the Welding Quality Assurance and Control Engineer

• Completed Craft Apprenticeship or NVQ/City & Guilds in a Fabrication or Engineering discipline, or equivalent
• Willingness to train for Radiation Worker and Confined Space Entry certification
• NSQAC qualification preferred (training provided if needed)
• Opportunity to complete Nuclear Plant Foundation training upon appointment

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 () .

What we offer

• 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. 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 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.