Senior Mechanical Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for Reservists

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer for our Devonport Royal Dockyard site. The role offers hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days on site and involves leading multidisciplinary mechanical design packages, delivering complex engineering solutions and mentoring engineers to ensure safe, high-quality outcomes.

You will own engineering work packages from concept through delivery within a highly regulated environment, focusing on crane handling systems and mechanical infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Chartered Engineer status is desirable.
• Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary mechanical handling and dockside design packages.
• Provide technical leadership across complex mechanical handling and infrastructure projects.
• Own engineering work packages from concept to delivery in a regulated environment.
• Drive safe, high-quality and cost-effective engineering solutions while mentoring engineers.
• Coordinate suppliers, stakeholders and project teams to achieve outcomes.

Skills

Crane projects

Mechanical handling

Electrical integration

Regulated environments

Design reviews

Mentoring engineers

Education

Mechanical Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer status (desirable)

Professional institution membership (advantage)

Chartered registration capability

Job description

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Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer

Compensation: £44,600 - £64,200 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74417

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 Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you'll work on complex engineering challenges, lead multidisciplinary design packages, and help deliver innovative solutions that are essential to national security. If you're looking to make a tangible impact while advancing your engineering career, this role offers the scale, responsibility and variety to help you thrive.

Day-to-day, you'll provide technical leadership across complex mechanical handling and infrastructure projects, taking ownership of critical engineering work packages from concept through to delivery. Working within a highly regulated environment, you'll drive safe, high-quality and cost-effective engineering solutions while mentoring engineers and collaborating with stakeholders across multiple disciplines.

• Leading the delivery of multidisciplinary mechanical handling and dockside engineering design packages.
• Managing technical requirements, risks, interfaces and engineering deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
• Reviewing and verifying calculations, drawings, specifications and technical documentation to ensure fitness for purpose.
• Driving design reviews, optioneering activities and engineering best practice to achieve safe and effective solutions.
• Mentoring engineers and coordinating suppliers, stakeholders and project teams to achieve successful project outcomes.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days onsite.

Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Engineer

• Experience leading complex engineering projects involving cranes, mechanical handling systems and mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
• Experience managing crane safety, protection systems and integration with existing assets and controls.
• Experience delivering mechanical and electrical integration activities across multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Experience working within highly regulated industries such as defence, nuclear, marine, infrastructure or heavy engineering.
• Experience leading design reviews, technical assurance activities and engineering delivery through the full project lifecycle.

Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Engineer

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status is desirable.
• Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution is advantageous.
• Alternatively, significant demonstrable engineering experience with the capability to achieve Chartered Engineer registration.

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 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. '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

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.

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