Senior Mechanical Services Engineer in Plymouth

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG. Job is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 depending on experience + benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead complex engineering projects that help protect the UK’s future.

The role:

As a Senior Mechanical Services Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering complex multidisciplinary engineering solutions that support critical defence infrastructure and national security programmes. Working within a highly skilled engineering team, you’ll lead the design, development and delivery of mechanical systems and services across major projects, providing technical leadership from concept through to construction and handover. You will influence high‑profile engineering programmes, collaborate across disciplines, and develop your career within one of the UK’s leading defence, aerospace and engineering organisations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of mechanical services and multidisciplinary design work packages to agreed safety, quality, schedule and cost requirements.
• Manage technical requirements, review calculations, drawings, specifications and engineering deliverables to ensure fit‑for‑purpose solutions.
• Drive design reviews, risk assessments, constructability activities and engineering assurance processes.
• Coordinate with engineering, construction, commissioning, operations and supply chain stakeholders to achieve successful project delivery.
• Mentor engineers and designers while providing technical leadership and guidance across project teams.

Essential Experience:

• Experience designing and implementing mechanical systems and services, particularly fluid systems, water systems, piping systems, pneumatic systems or hydraulic systems.
• Experience substantiating and managing complex engineering requirements within regulated industries.
• Experience supporting the construction, operation, maintenance, repair or refit of complex engineering facilities, ideally within defence, nuclear, marine or infrastructure environments.
• Strong technical design management experience across the full engineering design lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status – desirable.
• Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution – desirable.
• Significant demonstrable engineering experience with the capability to register with the Engineering Council at Incorporated Engineer or Chartered Engineer level – desirable.

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.

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 of special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading – ability to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
• Be Kind Day – one working day of paid leave a year to undertake volunteering with a chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package, including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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 are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements; please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.