Job Title: Maintenance Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £42,.00 + 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 Maintenance Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Maintenance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal role to ensure that the Royal Navy’s Type 23 (T23) Frigates are maintained to the highest standard and available 24/7 in the role of defending UK interests.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide technical contract management and overside of the service provider activities for ship maintenance periods.
1. Act as the focal point for the allocated work package in the core contract between the service provider, ship staff and other MoD stakeholders.
2. Evaluate and report progress with quality, configuration and engineering standards of the work carried out by the service provider.
3. Assess and endorse the technical requirements associated with emergent and additional work and raise contract variation orders where required.
4. Review and analyse data including defects, certification, tests and trials reports, logs and registers, maintenance audit reports, technical defect reports, configuration management and schedulable maintenance tasks.
5. Manage the ordering and supply of materials to support the delivery of the core contract activities and emergent defects.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Maintenance Engineer:
6. Experienced Marine Engineer
7. Experience of marine propulsion and auxiliary systems
8. A basic understanding of the role of a T23 Frigate
9. Strong stakeholder management experience at all levels
Qualifications for the Maintenance Engineer:
10. Minimum HND/HNC qualified in a relevant engineering discipline or have demonstrable experience in a relevant engineering field.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Employee share scheme
14. Employee shopping savings portal
15. Payment of Professional Fees
16. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
17. 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
18. ‘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
19. Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
20. Potential to develop skills.
21. A dynamic working environment.