Plant Engineer

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading benefit

Be Kind Day paid leave

Job summary

Babcock invites applications for a Plant Engineer at our Plymouth, Devon site with hybrid working arrangements. The role involves supporting the safe operation of nuclear facilities, ensuring design intent and safety requirements are met, and coordinating with multiple teams across production and design.

The candidate will authorise safety documentation, maintain records, and manage engineering activities within a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting engineering operations, maintenance, or modification activities.
• Knowledge of working practices within a high-hazard or highly regulated industry.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Experience producing technical, scientific, or engineering reports.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders in a safety-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Support facility operations by identifying and managing actions to ensure design intent and safety requirements are maintained.
• Authorizing nuclear safety documentation and maintaining accurate records relating to facility plant and assets.
• Manage the implementation of engineering activities while coordinating with a range of stakeholders across production, design, and technical teams.
• Control master documentation for nuclear safety management arrangements within the facility.
• Investigate, implementing, and supporting improvements and modifications to nuclear facilities and associated assets.

Skills

Engineering operations

Regulated industry

MS Office

Technical reporting

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Level 4 STEM qualification

Job description

Job Title: Plant Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76265

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 Plant Engineer at our Plymouth Devon site.

The role

As a Plant Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a vital role in supporting the safe operation of critical nuclear facilities that underpin the UK's defence capabilities. Working within the Plant Management Group, you'll help ensure that nuclear-implicated equipment and services are operated in line with stringent safety, engineering, and regulatory requirements. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career in a highly regulated engineering environment, collaborating with skilled technical professionals and making a meaningful contribution to national security.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to

• Support facility operations by identifying and managing actions to ensure design intent and safety requirements are maintained.
• Authorizing nuclear safety documentation and maintaining accurate records relating to facility plant and assets.
• Manage the implementation of engineering activities while coordinating with a range of stakeholders across production, design, and technical teams.
• Control master documentation for nuclear safety management arrangements within the facility.
• Investigate, implementing, and supporting improvements and modifications to nuclear facilities and associated assets

This is a full-time, role working 35 hours per week, based at Devonport. Flexible working patterns are available, with a combination of on-site working and up to 1-2 days per week working from home where business needs allow

Essential experience of the Plant Engineer

• Experience supporting engineering operations, maintenance, or modification activities.
• Knowledge of working practices within a high-hazard or highly regulated industry.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Experience producing technical, scientific, or engineering reports.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders in a safety-focused environment.

Qualifications for the Plant Engineer

• Level 4 qualification in a STEM discipline with relevant engineering experience

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and Standard (BPSS) / 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: 07/10/2026

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