Senior Supportability Engineer

Babcock International Group; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in naval architecture and marine engineering is seeking a Senior Supportability Engineer in Plymouth. The role involves managing engineering support solutions and implementing improvements within the Marine Sector, providing vital support services to the Royal Navy. Candidates should possess relevant engineering qualifications and a strong understanding of asset management and contract delivery.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Relevant engineering qualification (degree or equivalent experience considered advantageous).
• IEng status or working towards professional registration preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering aspects of support solutions for Marine systems.
• Investigate and resolve technical queries; develop and implement design improvements.
• Maintain technical document library and assist Project Managers with support as necessary.

Skills

Ability to read and understand engineering drawings

Design techniques

Contract delivery understanding

Procurement processes understanding

Asset management

Report writing

Configuration management

Education

Relevant engineering qualification (degree/equivalent)

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Senior Supportability Engineer, Plymouth

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Client:

Babcock International Group

Location:

Plymouth, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

17.06.2025

Expiry Date:

01.08.2025

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Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Supportability Engineer
Location: Either Bristol, Rosyth, Portsmouth or Plymouth
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent + hybrid working arrangements
Role 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 Supportability Engineer at either of our Bristol, Rosyth, Portsmouth or Plymouth offices.

The role

As a Senior Supportability Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will join a national team of around engineers and designers within the Marine Sector of Babcock. We are a leading design and through life support consultancy providing naval architecture, marine system engineering, electrical engineering, design modelling, supportability and project support services to the marine and defence markets.

• Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for managing engineering aspects of the support solution for equipment’s and systems contracted to Marine systems in the Support Value Stream, in order to deliver improvements to the services offered to the Royal Navy to the benefit of Babcock and the MoD customer.
• Investigating and resolving technical queries from a variety of sources, and raising and answering S forms through the Maritime Collaborative Working Environment via the Surface Ship Definition Database (SSDD) and Submarine definition Database (SDD) against scope of the contracts supported.
• Developing and implementing design and supporting improvements, such as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) actions, to identify cost/lead-time/availability improvements for the Marine Systems contracts.
• Resolving obsolescence issues identified by the Obsolescence Manager, applying the most appropriate resolution to gain the maximum benefit to the project.
• Performing Unit Maintenance Management System (UMMS) Monitoring and suggesting changes to improve the reliability of assets.
• Assisting in maintaining a technical document library. This includes reviewing and updating Books of Reference (BRs) and Illustrated Parts Catalogues (IPCs).
• Codifying non-patternised items to allow their supply to the Royal Navy.
• Conduct visits to OEMs and liaise on board with ships staff as required to maintain currency of issues.
• Define and update repair/new-buy Statement of requirements (SoRs).
• Provide Task Approval Form (TAF) support to the Project Managers as necessary.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Supportability Engineer

• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.
• Be well versed with design techniques.
• Have an understanding of contract delivery.
• Have an understanding of Procurement processes.
• A good understanding of asset management.
• Ability to produce concise reports and business cases.
• A good understanding of configuration management.

Qualifications for the Senior Supportability Engineer

The candidate will have a relevant engineering qualification such as degree/equivalent, or equivalent experience will be considered and advantageous. The candidate will ideally have IEng status or working towards professional registration.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 (

What we offer

• Matched contribution 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