Welding QA QC Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Welding QAQC Engineer in Plymouth, ensuring the quality and integrity of critical welding for UK defence programmes. Play a vital role in submarine and surface ship maintenance and construction.
// Key Responsibilities
- Ensure quality and safety of critical welding activities.
- Produce welding quality assurance documentation and Weld Information Sheets.
- Review welding and non-destructive testing quality packs.
- Conduct visual inspections and advise on welding methods.
- Support welding procedure development and quality initiatives.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Welding QAQC Engineer at Babcock's Devonport Royal Dockyard, you will 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.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to combine your welding and fabrication expertise with quality assurance and engineering best practice. You will 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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Essential Experience
- 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
- Craft Apprenticeship, City & Guilds in Fabrication/Engineering Discipline, or equivalent.
- CSWIP 3:1 in Visual Weld Inspection is desirable (training offered post-appointment).
- Radiation Worker and Confined Space entry training will be provided.
- NSQAC is desirable.
- Nuclear Plant Foundation training will be provided.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Special paid leave for reservists in the armed forces
- Holiday Trading scheme
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering