Job Title: Principal Engineer - Nuclear Process
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £56,.00 - £69, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
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 Principal Engineer - Nuclear Process at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Principal Engineer - Nuclear Process, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary where you’ll lead the provision of technical support to nuclear implicated submarine maintenance activities on Western Europe’s largest Naval Base and one of the UK’s Nuclear Licensed Sites.
Day-to-day, you’ll support the development and operation of new facilities for defuel of decommissioned nuclear submarines, and will provide technical guidance on the safe transfer, storage, treatment and disposal or radioactive liquid effluent from in-service submarines.
1. Acting as subject matter expert and leading the provision of advice to the Head of Nuclear Engineering Group, other Principal Engineers and key stakeholders from the wider business on the implementation and maintenance of design documentation
2. Managing and developing a team of Engineers with varying levels of seniority/experience
3. Leading the delivery of work packages in accordance with the design process (Start-up, Concept, Scheme, Detailed and Implementation phases) in order to maintain and improve capabilities
4. Managing the production, checking and approval of technical documentation and drawings
5. Leading engineering analyses including calculations, component structural analysis and system fluid flow analysis
This role is full time, working 35 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 Engineer
6. Knowledge of mechanical engineering principles for the design, operation and maintenance of pressure/pipework systems
7. Knowledge of the considerations for safe design, operation and maintenance or nuclear/radiologically implicated systems
8. Experience leading a team of engineers in a design or technical support function
9. Experience using engineering software packages (e.g. for computer aided design, stress analysis or fluid flow)
10. Experience in the design, operation or maintenance of pressure systems in a highly regulated industry
11. Experience in the application of, and demonstration of compliance with, legislation, engineering standards and design codes
12. Knowledge of the design lifecycle and experience of leading work within it
Qualifications for the Principal Engineer:
13. A degree in a Mechanical or Chemical Engineering
14. Professional membership as a Chartered Engineer with a relevant institution (or evidence of working towards this with demonstrable experience)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What we offer
15. Generous holiday allowance
16. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
17. Employee share scheme
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. 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
22. ‘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