Marine Engineer Section Head

3 weeks ago


Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Babcock International Group Full time

Job Title: Marine Engineer Section Head

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £36,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Marine Engineer Section Head, you'll play a key role in delivering complex deep maintenance periods for the Royal Navy's Landing ships.

The Role:

You'll conduct maintenance on a wide range of systems, acting as the point of contact for those systems. You'll liaise with external and internal stakeholders to deliver or coordinate trials as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining mechanical and electrical systems and equipment
  • Engaging with outgoing and incoming ships staff teams to accept and handover equipment
  • Operating and setting to work equipment and systems within the section
  • Identifying and rectifying defects
  • Accepting equipment from contractors, ensuring that all contracted work is complete to the required standard

Essential Experience:

  • An experienced Marine Engineer with a track record of successful section management and delivering change
  • An excellent communicator, comfortable with written and verbal communications, with the ability to interact at all levels
  • A good understanding of systems engineering and being agile and adaptable
  • High voltage or heavy electrical system section experience is desirable

Qualifications:

  • HNC qualified or equivalent in an engineering specialisation, with significant demonstrable experience

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

What We Offer:

  • 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
  • Opportunity to work with innovative technology
  • Growth opportunities
  • Potential to develop skills


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