Maintenance Planning Engineer

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in Bristol is seeking a Maintenance Planning Engineer to optimize maintenance plans for the Royal Navy’s submarines. You'll analyze data and collaborate with experts, ensuring fleet readiness and supporting national security. Candidates should hold a degree in engineering and possess strong communication and IT skills. This role offers a hybrid work model with competitive compensation and benefits, including generous holiday allowance and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Professional fees payment

Flexible volunteering time

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant engineering discipline or HNC/HND with relevant experience.
• Experience in marine, defense, or asset intensive industry is welcomed.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Optimize through life maintenance plans for submarines.
• Analyze complex data, balancing maintenance requirements against programs.
• Support program changes and collaborate with experts to optimize work packages.

Skills

Engineering experience with a solid understanding of maintenance requirements and planning

Strong communication and presentation skills

Ability to produce clear technical reports

Strong IT skills and experience analyzing data

Education

Degree in a relevant engineering discipline or HNC/HND

Tools

Excel

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Maintenance Planning Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £51,068 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69634

Plan the Availability of the Royal Navy’s Submarines

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 Maintenance Planning Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard sites.

The role

As a Maintenance Planning Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Your work directly supports national security and fleet readiness, giving you a unique platform to grow your engineering, planning and stakeholder skills in a career that truly matters.

Day-to-day, you’ll help optimise through life maintenance plans for the Royal Navy’s in service submarines. Working in a fast paced, high consequence environment, you’ll analyse complex data, balance maintenance requirements against operational programmes, and collaborate with subject matter experts across Babcock, the Ministry of Defence and industry partners.

• Supporting programme changes and “what if” scenarios to keep submarines safe, capable and available.
• Using a dedicated asset management tool to manage maintenance requirements through life.
• Collaborating with experts across Babcock, the Royal Navy, MOD and industry partners to optimise work packages.
• Contributing to the development of the through life boat plan application alongside the team.

This role is full time 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience

• Engineering experience with a solid understanding of maintenance requirements and planning.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to engage at all levels.
• Ability to produce clear technical reports and identify improvement opportunities.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.
• Strong IT skills and experience analysing data in Excel or similar tools.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant engineering discipline or HNC/HND with demonstrable relevant experience.
• Marine, defence or asset intensive industry experience is welcomed.

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.

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 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: 25/12/2025

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