At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to design and deliver innovative mechanical handling solutions for submarines and warships.
- Company: Join Babcock, a global leader in engineering with a commitment to safety and security.
- Benefits: Enjoy generous holidays, a matched pension scheme, and excellent professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Hybrid working options available, fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace culture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while enjoying a balanced work-life environment.
- Qualifications: Degree in Mechanical Engineering and experience in high-integrity lifting equipment design.
The predicted salary is between 57300 - 71600 £ per year.
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £57,300 - £71,600 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role Overview
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 Principal Mechanical Handling Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The Role
As a Principal Mechanical Handling Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering complex engineering solutions that support submarine and warship refit programmes. Leading a team of engineers, you’ll provide technical leadership across the design, assurance and delivery of bespoke mechanical handling and lifting equipment in a highly regulated environment.
- Leading a team of engineers and providing technical oversight for the design and delivery of mechanical handling and lifting equipment.
- Overseeing technical reviews and approving engineering designs, calculations and technical documentation.
- Providing expert guidance and solutions to complex engineering challenges within regulated environments.
- Acting as an Intelligent Customer, assessing, challenging and verifying contractor and supplier engineering solutions.
- Supporting the successful delivery of submarine and warship refit programmes through technical leadership and engineering excellence.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.
Essential Experience
- Experience designing high-integrity lifting equipment and accessories, ideally within a nuclear regulated environment.
- Strong understanding of relevant engineering regulations, legislation and standards applicable to mechanical handling design.
- Demonstrable experience managing complex engineering design development throughout the full design lifecycle.
- Experience acting in an Intelligent Customer capacity, with the ability to review and verify engineering solutions from external suppliers and contractors.
- Experience working within nuclear, defence or other highly regulated, high-hazard industries.
Qualifications
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional institution, such as IMechE, IMarEST or IET, or actively working towards Chartered status.
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.
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 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.
- 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.
About 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.
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