At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead complex engineering projects and mentor engineers in a dynamic team.
- Company: Join Babcock, a global leader in defence and infrastructure.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension scheme, health support, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a commitment to inclusivity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while advancing your engineering career.
- Qualifications: Degree in Mechanical Engineering and experience in complex engineering projects.
The predicted salary is between 44600 - 55800 £ per year.
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74417
Lead complex engineering solutions that support the UK's defence and national infrastructure.
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 Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role involves:
- Leading the delivery of mechanical handling, dockside infrastructure and multidisciplinary engineering work packages from concept through to handover.
- Managing technical requirements, reviewing engineering calculations, drawings, specifications and design documentation to ensure high-quality project delivery.
- Designing and integrating crane protection systems, mechanical handling equipment, access control solutions and infrastructure improvements.
- Coordinating with construction, civil, mechanical, electrical and control systems stakeholders to manage complex engineering interfaces.
- Mentoring engineers and designers while driving safety, quality, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement across projects.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience includes:
- Experience leading complex engineering projects involving cranes, mechanical handling systems or mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
- Experience managing crane safety, lifting equipment, protection systems and mechanical handling solutions within regulated environments.
- Experience delivering multidisciplinary design projects and managing interfaces across mechanical, electrical, controls and civil engineering disciplines.
- Experience working within highly regulated sectors such as defence, nuclear, marine, heavy engineering or critical infrastructure.
- Experience overseeing design assurance, technical reviews, safety management and engineering governance throughout the project lifecycle.
Qualifications include:
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status - Desirable
- Membership of a relevant professional institution - Desirable
- Significant engineering experience with the capability to achieve Engineering Council registration at 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:
- 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.
Babcock is 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.
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.
Closing date: 22/07/2026
