Job Title: Principal Marine Structures Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Bristol, or Rosyth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59830
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 Principal Marine Structures Engineer at our Plymouth, Bristol, or Rosyth site.
As a Principal Marine Structures Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. As a leading provider of naval ship support and maintenance, we design, build, assemble, maintain, and upgrade international warships, delivering through-life support across the globe, ensuring that the UK Royal Navy and international navies go to sea safely.
Building on the success of the UK MoD Type 31 Frigate, we have secured contracts for frigate export variants (AH140) with overseas customers. The engineering team is actively working on other ship newbuild and life extension programs around the world, from small fast attack craft to aircraft carriers.
The role
Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for authoring, reviewing, and substantiating Marine and Structural designs through calculations, simulations, commissioning, and diagnostic test support.
* Contribute and lead product development throughout the design lifecycle and provide technical support to key customers.
* Act as a Technical Authority with deep subject knowledge of Marine/Structural engineering and technical responsibility for the delivery of engineering outputs.
* Utilize analytical engineering software such as finite element analysis, 2D and 3D CAD packages.
* Contribute and lead Design Reviews, working with Production Teams.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week, and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Principal Marine Structures Engineer
* High level of developed knowledge and experience within your specialist area, including design development and solutions.
* Experience delivering technical leadership to product development.
* Experience supporting professional development/mentoring to junior team members.
* Experience supporting governance reviews of developed solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
* Experience within appropriate analytical software, shipbuilding, and operation and/or maintenance and leadership in an engineering environment ideally within defence.
Qualifications for the Principal Marine Structures Engineer
* Ideally degree qualified, but HND/HNC level qualification in an engineering discipline with extensive experience in the relevant field will be considered.
* Membership in a relevant institution (e.g., RINA, IET, IMechE, IMarEst) and holding Chartered status.
* Either already UK Security cleared or able to achieve UK SC clearance.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
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 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.
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 with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone is free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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