Maintenance Support Engineer

Babcock International; West Devon; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces leave

Holiday Trading option

Be Kind Day - paid volunteering day

Job summary

Babcock International is recruiting a Maintenance Support Engineer for the Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth, Devon. The role focuses on coordinating maintenance readiness and planning across critical assets within a fast-paced defence environment.

You will work with operations, engineering, and external contractors to ensure safe, efficient maintenance delivery and asset availability. A security clearance is required and the position is full-time on site.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 / BTEC or equivalent in Engineering.
• Experience in engineering, nuclear, defence, marine or heavy industrial environments.
• Proven ability to plan and coordinate maintenance activities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating maintenance readiness activities to support planned and corrective maintenance programmes.
• Planning and enabling maintenance activities safely and efficiently in line with the Nuclear Facilities Maintenance Planning Cycle.
• Supporting reactive and emergent maintenance activities to restore equipment and asset availability.
• Developing scopes of work, technical requirements and supporting documentation for external suppliers and contractors.
• Liaising with operations, engineering, maintenance teams and contractors to resolve issues and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Coordination

Problem solving

Education

NVQ Level 3 / BTEC in Engineering

Job description

Job Title: Maintenance Support Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £33,900 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77265

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 Support Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Maintenance Support Engineer, you'll play a key role in supporting the Nuclear Facilities Operations and Maintenance team, helping to coordinate and lead maintenance planning and readiness activities across critical nuclear assets, facilities and infrastructure. This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced and dynamic environment where no two days are the same, working at the heart of a programme that directly supports the UK's defence capability.

Day-to-day, you'll work closely with operations, engineering, maintenance teams and external contractors to ensure maintenance activities are delivered safely, efficiently and to schedule. In return, you'll gain experience across complex engineering operations, develop your technical and planning expertise, and build a rewarding career within one of the UK's leading defence and engineering organisations.

• Coordinating maintenance readiness activities to support planned and corrective maintenance programmes.
• Planning and enabling maintenance activities safely and efficiently in line with the Nuclear Facilities Maintenance Planning Cycle.
• Supporting reactive and emergent maintenance activities to restore equipment and asset availability.
• Developing scopes of work, technical requirements and supporting documentation for external suppliers and contractors.
• Liaising with operations, engineering, maintenance teams and contractors to resolve issues, remove delivery barriers and drive continuous improvement.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Maintenance Support Engineer

• Experience within engineering, nuclear, defence, marine or heavy industrial environments.
• Experience supporting maintenance activities for complex assets, plant, equipment or infrastructure.
• Proven ability to plan and coordinate maintenance, engineering, operational or support activities.
• Experience reviewing Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS), developing scopes of work and defining engineering requirements.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to manage priorities, overcome obstacles and deliver effective solutions.

Qualifications for the Maintenance Support Engineer

• Minimum NVQ Level 3, BTEC, or equivalent qualification in an Engineering discipline. Applicants with significant transferable experience in a relevant engineering-based role will also be considered.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be 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 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 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.

Closing date: 26/11/2026