Mechanical Engineering - Deputy Team Leader

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Babcock as a Mechanical Engineering Deputy Team Leader at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site. In this full-time role, you will be responsible for overseeing fuel handling operations ensuring safety and efficiency while fostering a strong safety culture. Required qualifications include a minimum of ONC in Mechanical Engineering and relevant experience in a high-hazard environment.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Awareness of UK civil and defence nuclear regulatory requirements beneficial.
• Experience in managing both Non-Industrial and Industrial staff.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily shift activities under Fuel Handling Managers’ direction.
• Ensure compliance and efficiency in daily fuel handling operations.
• Serve as the primary coordinator for fuel handling operations.

Skills

Mechanical engineering experience

Team collaboration

Safety compliance

Education

ONC in Mechanical Engineering or Equivalent

Job description

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Mechanical Engineering - Deputy Team Leader

Location:

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Mechanical Engineering – Deputy Team Leader

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF60424

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 Mechanical Engineering – Deputy Team Leader at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As aMechanical Engineering – Deputy Team Leader, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join a specialist team working with cutting-edge equipment, ensuring operational capability within the fuel handling function at Devonport Site. Play a vital role in maintaining excellence in safety, efficiency, and performance.

Day-to-day, you’ll assist with daily fuel handling operations, ensuring safety, compliance, and efficiency across the site while maintaining high standards in procedures and activities.

• Oversee daily shift activities and resource allocation under Fuel Handling Managers’ direction.
• Serve as the primary coordinator for fuel handling, neutron source moves, and Nuclear Transfer route operations.
• Manage and execute approved procedures within the section.
• Ensure timely completion of procedures and quality records for assurance.
• Foster and promote a strong safety culture within the fuel handling section.

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

There is an opportunity for Optimised Working Patterns (OWP) within this role. OWP is a temporary variation to your standard terms and condition that commits you to support 7-day working arrangements. For full details of the patterns, pay and durations, this can be found in the OWP 1 and OWP 2 agreements (available from hiring manager).

Primarily, it involves 4-week shift cycles consisting of either day/back shift or day/night shift.

Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineering – Deputy Team Leader

• Awareness of UK civil and defence nuclear regulatory requirements is beneficial.
• Experience in mechanical engineering within a high-hazard industry.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplined team.
• Experience in directing and managing both Non-Industrial and Industrial staff.

Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineering – Deputy Team Leader

• ONC in Mechanical Engineering or Equivalent - Essential

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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 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.

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