Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer

Babcock International; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Flexible working

Dynamic working environment

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer to support through-life maintenance and optimisation for the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. Based at the Bristol area with hybrid working, you’ll interact with Royal Navy and MoD partners to solve complex engineering challenges and drive improvements.

You will balance programme demands with operational needs, ensuring safe and available submarine capability while developing specialist expertise across a world-class defence

Qualifications

• Experience in an engineering role with knowledge of maintenance, asset management or defect rectification activities.
• Understanding of complex engineering systems and through-life support principles.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage a range of stakeholders.
• Experience identifying and implementing improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of submarine systems would be advantageous but is not essential.

Responsibilities

• Support maintenance planning and optimisation activities across submarine programmes.
• Collaborate with SMEs, the Royal Navy, MoD and industry partners to deliver engineering solutions.
• Manage maintenance requirements and balance operational priorities against programme demands.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and drive enhancements to maintenance processes.
• Contribute to delivering safe, effective and available submarine capability for the UK defence community.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Asset management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Improvement initiatives

Education

HND in engineering discipline

IEng

Job description

As a Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer, you'll play a vital role in supporting through-life maintenance management and optimisation for the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. Working within a technically complex and fast-paced environment, you'll help ensure submarines remain safe, capable and available when they're needed most. This is an exciting opportunity to influence critical defence programmes while working alongside engineering specialists across Babcock, the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence and industry partners. You'll contribute to solving complex engineering challenges, driving continuous improvement and developing specialist expertise within one of the UK's most important defence sectors. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Support maintenance planning and optimisation activities across submarine programmes
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts, the Royal Navy, Ministry of Defence and industry partners to deliver engineering solutions
• Manage maintenance requirements and helping balance operational priorities against programme demands
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and driving enhancements to maintenance processes
• Contribute to the delivery of safe, effective and available submarine capability for the UK defence community

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week onsite at Babcock Technology Centre in Bristol. Additional days required during peak workload periods.

Essential experience of the Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer

• Experience in an engineering role with knowledge of maintenance, asset management or defect rectification activities
• Understanding of complex engineering systems and through-life support principles
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage a range of stakeholders
• Experience identifying and implementing improvement initiativesli>
• Knowledge of submarine systems would be advantageous but is not essential

Qualifications for the Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer

• HND in a relevant engineering-based discipline with significant demonstrable experience.
• Hold a minimum professional qualification of IEng.

Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role. Must be sole UK national.

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer at Babcock Technology Centre, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.

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.

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 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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment