Senior Mechanical Engineer

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension and life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Leave/volunteering benefits

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading

Wellbeing programme

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer for its Devonport Dockyard site in Plymouth. You will lead complex mechanical handling and dockside design packages, ensuring safe, high-quality solutions across the project lifecycle.

The role requires experience in regulated industries, strong leadership, and the ability to mentor teams while coordinating with stakeholders. HC clearance and hybrid onsite presence are expected.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex engineering projects involving cranes, mechanical handling systems and infrastructure.
• Experience managing crane safety, protection systems and integration with existing assets and controls.
• Experience delivering mechanical and electrical integration activities across multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience in highly regulated sectors such as defence, nuclear, marine or heavy engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary mechanical handling and dockside design packages.
• Manage technical requirements, risks, interfaces and deliverables across the project lifecycle.
• Review calculations, drawings and documentation to ensure fitness for purpose.
• Drive design reviews and optioneering to achieve safe, cost-effective solutions.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate suppliers and stakeholders for successful outcomes.

Skills

Multidisciplinary project leadership

Crane safety management

Mechanical/electrical integration

Regulated industry experience

Design reviews & assurance

Education

Mechanical Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer status desirable

Professional engineering institution membership advantageous

Equivalent demonstrable experience for Chartered route

Job description

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

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

• 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 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.

Closing date: 23/09/2026

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