Engineering Technician

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the UK is seeking an Engineering Technician to manage complex support arrangements for Royal Navy submarines. You will maintain configuration data, ensure QA for documentation, and work collaboratively as a subject matter expert. The role offers a hybrid working model, with a comprehensive benefits package including generous holidays and a matched pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension contributions

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering day

Qualifications

• Experience in using engineering documentation.
• Understanding of change management.
• Ability to work independently with incomplete information.

Responsibilities

• Maintain configuration data for Royal Navy submarines.
• Ensure quality assurance of Technical Documentation.
• Manage Design Change Management documentation.

Skills

Engineering documentation

Change management

Communication skills

Education

ONC/BTEC level 3 in STEM discipline

Job description

Job Title: Engineering Technician
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38,084 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67184

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Technician at our Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre site.

Overview

The role is focused on managing complex support arrangements for Royal Navy submarines. You will be responsible for knowing what is fitted to each submarine, where it is fitted, who supplies it and how it is fitted, with emphasis on design information management and configuration data.

The role

As an Engineering Technician you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll join a team working on one of the most complex support arrangements in operation in the UK today. You will manage this by ensuring that you know what is fitted to every Royal Navy submarine, where it is fitted, who supplies it and how it is fitted.

Day to day, you’ll provide support and be responsible for design information management. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining the configuration data and datum pack records for all items as fitted to Royal Navy submarines in accordance with a Configuration Management Plan
• Maintaining a record of the status of extant submarine Technical Documentation to ensure Quality Assurance is achieved and maintained.
• Ensuring all Design Change Management documentation is managed and maintained correctly within the Submarine Definition Database (SDD)
• Working as part of a team as a subject matter expert across Babcock, the Royal Navy, MoD and industry partners

Essential experience

• Experience in using engineering documentation (such as drawings and technical records)
• Understanding of change management and the control of project and engineering documentation.
• Ability to work independently, challenge the status quo and make judgments based on incomplete information is essential.
• Strong communication skills and ability to converse at all levels.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Qualifications

• ONC/BTEC level 3 qualifications in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics discipline however we will consider applicants that can demonstrate relevant vocational experience if this isn’t held
• Hold, or be willing to proactively work towards, professional recognition as an Engineering Technician with an appropriate Engineering Institution.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role and be a sole UK National.

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

• 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. 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.

Closing date

Closing date: 15/09/2025

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