Welding Engineer in Tavistock

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Your Role

Applies engineering concepts and theories to deliver development designs, calculations, and technical solutions across a range of applications for Babcock products and services across the Engineering Product Lifecycle. An experienced engineer, directly accountable for designs, calculations, and technical solutions. Able to work under own initiative to produce high quality outputs. Capable of managing others and/or delivery of engineering and technical activities, through the application of process, domain knowledge and experience. Can apply a wider range of knowledge to complex situations. Provides mentoring to others.

Shape the future of welding excellence on some of the UK's most critical defence projects. 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 Welding Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Welding Engineer, you'll play an essential part in ensuring the integrity, safety and performance of welding activities across a range of major defence programmes. You'll work at the forefront of engineering, supporting submarines, surface ships and major infrastructure projects, where precision, quality and technical excellence are paramount.

Day-to-day, you'll take ownership of welding governance across the site, providing expert advice, driving innovation and helping shape processes that directly support national security. This role offers a dynamic, development-focused environment where you can broaden your technical expertise, collaborate with skilled professionals and build a meaningful career in high-impact engineering.

• Take ownership of the technical governance of welding across Devonport, providing expert support to submarines, surface ships and major infrastructure projects.
• Ensure compliance with Babcock's Weld Quality Management System (ISO3834-2) and uphold high welding standards across all activities.
• Manage the introduction and implementation of new welding procedures, working closely with site welders and overseeing equipment and workshop practices.
• Author technical reports, proposals and recommendations for specialist welding solutions using your materials expertise.
• Assess subcontractor quality systems to ensure consistency, capability and alignment with Babcock's welding requirements.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Welding Engineer

• Strong understanding of welding processes and techniques.
• Experience working with welding quality systems or operational welding environments.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and support to multidisciplinary teams.
• Confidence in producing technical documentation or assessments.
• Strong problem-solving approach with a commitment to high safety and engineering standards.

Qualifications for the Welding Engineer

• National Skills Framework Level 5 qualification (or equivalent), such as Foundation degree, Diploma, HND, BEng/BSc or MEng/MSc (in relevant engineering disciplines).
• Additional welding, materials or quality-related technical training or certifications – Desirable.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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.

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 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.

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.