Configuration Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; West Devon; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international defense contractor is seeking a Configuration Engineer at their Devonport site. This position involves ensuring compliance with safety regulations and providing administration support within a nuclear facility. The role promotes hybrid work arrangements and requires excellent communication and organizational skills. Benefits include a matched contribution pension, access to health services, and a robust employee support program. Join us to make a significant contribution to national security and public safety.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Holiday trading options

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a high-hazard or highly regulated industry is advantageous.
• Ability to manage and prioritise tasks effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage Facility Procedure Authorisation Group meetings and documentation.
• Supervise configuration activities for the Radioactive Waste Management Plant.
• Administer configuration tools for governance activities.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong organisational skills

Ability to work independently

Experience in high-hazard industry

Job description

Configuration Engineer

Location:

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Configuration Engineer

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70111

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 Configuration Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Configuration Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Your work will ensure compliance with safety cases and contribute to the safe and effective operation of nuclear facilities - a role that truly makes a difference to national security and public safety.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide technical configuration and administration support to the governance of activities within the Plant Management Group

• Manage and co-ordinate Facility Procedure Authorisation Group meetings, documentation and configuration.
• Supervise configuration and due process activities for the Radioactive Waste Management Plant Management Group.
• Administer configuration tools to support governance activities.
• Champion accurate record retention to ensure safe work and compliance.
• Provide advice on due process and reviews to maintain regulatory standards.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Configuration Engineer

• Excellent communication skills at all levels.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise.
• Ability to work independently with a flexible attitude.
• Experience in a high-hazard or highly regulated industry (advantageous).

Qualifications for the Configuration Engineer

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / 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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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 International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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.