Electrical Design Engineer

Babcock International; Helensburgh; Sur place; GBP 50 000 - 70 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP

Aviva DigiCare+

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10‑days special paid leave for Reservi

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Résumé du poste

Babcock is seeking an Electrical Design Engineer to support HM Naval Base Clyde, Helensburgh. You will provide electrical design expertise, act as Technical Authority, and ensure safety, regulatory compliance and efficiency across critical naval infrastructure.

Based onsite, you’ll survey assets, deliver designs for small sites and major programmes, and collaborate with engineering, facilities, project delivery and defence operations to optimise infrastructure investment.

Qualifications

• Experience in an electrical design engineering role or a strong desire to develop into electrical design engineering.
• Strong knowledge of electrical systems and equipment within large commercial, industrial, infrastructure, or engineering environments.
• Understanding of statutory and regulatory requirements, including DSEAR.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and carry out electrical calculations.
• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsabilités

• Acting as the Technical Authority for electrical services, providing expert advice across infrastructure projects.
• Surveying and inspecting electrical assets throughout HM Naval Base Clyde and assessing their condition against relevant standards.
• Delivering electrical and building services designs for smaller site projects and supporting larger programmes delivered by external partners.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory, quality, environmental, and safety requirements.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across engineering, facilities, project delivery, and defence operations to optimise infrastructure investment.

Connaissances

Electrical design engineering

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving

Formation

Recognised apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering

City & Guilds 2395 Periodic Inspection, Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Description du poste

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Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75675

Shape the future of critical naval infrastructure and help create a safe and secure world.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Design Engineer at HM Naval Base Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

The role

As an Electrical Design Engineer, you'll provide specialist electrical design expertise and technical assurance across one of the UK's most important defence environments. Operating within a highly regulated naval base, you'll help ensure essential infrastructure is safe, compliant, efficient, and ready to support critical defence operations.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine hands‑on engineering, asset surveying, design delivery, and technical authority responsibilities. You'll influence infrastructure decisions across the site while developing your expertise within a business that delivers some of the UK's most complex engineering and defence programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Acting as the Technical Authority for electrical services, providing expert advice across infrastructure projects.
• Surveying and inspecting electrical assets throughout HM Naval Base Clyde and assessing their condition against relevant standards.
• Delivering electrical and building services designs for smaller site projects and supporting larger programmes delivered by external partners.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory, quality, environmental, and safety requirements.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across engineering, facilities, project delivery, and defence operations to optimise infrastructure investment.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, based onsite at HM Naval Base Clyde.

Essential experience of the Electrical Design Engineer:

• Experience within an electrical design engineering role, or a strong desire to develop into electrical design engineering.
• Strong knowledge of electrical systems and equipment within large commercial, industrial, infrastructure, or engineering environments.
• Understanding of statutory and regulatory requirements, including DSEAR.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and carry out electrical calculations.
• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills.

Qualifications for the Electrical Design Engineer:

• Recognised apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering or equivalent qualification.
• City & Guilds 2395 Periodic Inspection, Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role.

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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 [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.

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