Senior Welding Engineer

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Welding Engineer, where you’ll play a vital role in ensuring high-quality welding practices. This position offers a dynamic team environment that fosters professional growth and innovation. You will oversee technical governance, manage new welding procedures, and contribute to impactful projects on surface ships and submarines. With hybrid working arrangements, generous benefits, and excellent development opportunities, this role is perfect for those looking to advance their careers while making a significant contribution to national defense.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of welding processes and techniques.
• Previous experience in Welding Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence to welding quality management standards.
• Manage new welding procedures and collaborate with welders.
• Author technical reports for bespoke welding techniques.

Skills

Welding Processes

Welding Engineering

Education

National Skill Framework Level 6

Foundation Degree

HND

BEng/BSc

MEng/MSc

Job description

Job Title: Senior Welding Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63907

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 Welding Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Senior Welding Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join a dynamic and agile team that fosters professional growth and career progression. This role offers a supportive environment for development, enabling you to advance your skills while contributing to impactful projects.

Day-to-day, you’ll take ownership of the technical governance of welding across Devonport, providing expert support for surface ships, submarines, and Major Infrastructure Project (MIP) operations. Ensure adherence to standards, drive innovation, and support key projects.

• Ensure adherence to Babcock’s Weld Quality Management System (ISO3834-2) to maintain high-quality practices.
• Manage new welding procedures in workshops, collaborating with skilled welders and overseeing equipment.
• Author technical reports and proposals for bespoke welding techniques, leveraging materials expertise.
• Assess sub-contractor quality systems to uphold high welding standards across the site.

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

Essential experience of the Senior Welding Engineer

• Strong understanding of welding processes and techniques.
• Previous experience in Welding Engineering

Qualifications for the Senior Welding Engineer

• National Skill Framework Level 6 qualification.
• Open to applicants with Level 6 and above qualifications in relevant engineering disciplines, such as foundation degrees, diplomas, HND, BEng/BSc, or MEng/MSc.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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. 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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: 23/05/2025

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