Senior Mechanical Engineer

5 days ago


Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Babcock International Group Full time

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working

Compensation: £49,000 - £61,000 dependent upon experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Job ID: SF

Babcock International Group is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team at our Devonport site. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will play a key role in maintaining and managing changes to the design intent of nuclear implicated and equipment that support the upkeep of the Royal Navy's fleet of submarines.

The Role

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will lead activities throughout the design lifecycle, acting as technical checker of documentation. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Providing technical support, guidance, and advice to facility owners, operators, and maintainers
  • Maintaining an accurate and up-to-date suite of reference design documentation for facility systems and equipment under your authority
  • Ensuring that statutory UK legislative requirements are embodied into engineering systems and that those systems and safe to use and fit for purpose
  • Producing work schedules and managing priorities in agreement with key stakeholders
  • Supporting the growth and development of Engineers in your team, ensuring capabilities are maintained in line with current and future demand

This role is full time 35 hours and will be based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard with hybrid working from home arrangements.

Essential Experience

  • Demonstrable experience of having leadership responsibilities as part of a technical team in a relevant engineering industry
  • Knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering principles for the design, operation, and maintenance of pressure/pipework systems in a highly regulated industry
  • Knowledge and understanding of relevant design codes, engineering standards, and legislation
  • Experience of engineering project specification, planning, budgeting, and delivery
  • Experience in the use of engineering software packages for design and analysis
  • Professional membership with an engineering institution

Qualifications

  • A degree in a relevant engineering subject

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.

Our Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
  • 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
  • '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


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