Senior Mechanical Engineer

Babcock International Group; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Babcock International Group as a Senior Mechanical Engineer at the Devonport site. The role involves leading a team responsible for maintaining design intent for nuclear equipment supporting the Royal Navy. Candidates should have a relevant engineering degree and experience in mechanical engineering within a highly regulated environment.

Benefits

Contributory Pension scheme

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10 days special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in a technical team.
• Knowledge of mechanical engineering principles.
• Understanding of relevant design codes and legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical support and advice for facility owners.
• Maintain up-to-date reference design documentation.
• Ensure compliance with statutory UK legislative requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Mechanical Engineering Principles

Design Understanding

Project Management

Engineering Software Packages

Education

Degree in a relevant engineering subject

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working
Compensation: £49,.00 - £61,.00 dependent upon experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Job ID: SF

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 Senior Mechanical Engineer at our Devonport site.

The role

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary where you’ll be part of a team that are responsible for maintaining and managing changes to the design intent of nuclear implicated and equipment that support the upkeep of the Royal Navy’s fleet of submarines.

Day to day, you’ll lead activities throughout the design lifecycle, acting as technical checker of documentation as well as:

• Lead the provision of technical support, guidance and advice to facility owners, operators and maintainers
• Maintain an accurate and up-to-date suite of reference design documentation for facility systems and equipment under your authority
• Ensure that statutory UK legislative requirements are embodied into engineering systems and that those systems and safe to use and fit for purpose
• Produce work schedules and managing priorities in agreement with key stakeholders
• Support the growth and development of Engineers in your team, ensuring capabilities are maintained in line with current and future demand

This role is full time 35 hours and will be based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard with hybrid working from home arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Engineer:

• Demonstrable experience of having leadership responsibilities as part of a technical team in a relevant engineering industry
• Knowledge and understanding of mechanical engineering principles for the design, operation, and maintenance of pressure/pipework systems in a highly regulated industry
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant design codes, engineering standards and legislation
• Experience of engineering project specification, planning, budgeting and delivery
• Experience in the use of engineering software packages for design and analysis
• Professional membership with an engineering institution

Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Engineer:

• A degree in a relevant engineering subject

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.

• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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