Job Title: Senior Engineer – Submarine Combat Systems
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £49, + 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 Senior Engineer – Submarine Combat Systems at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Senior Engineer – Submarine Combat Systems, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Joining the combat system assurance and support sections, you will play a pivotal part in providing assurance and support under the Chief Engineer.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide proactive technical support to our MOD customer, working collaboratively with other stakeholders across Babcock and the wider submarine enterprise as well as:
1. Administering a database which provides assurance of weapon discharge equipment availability in Astute Class submarines
2. Conducting supporting audits of equipment holdings and test certification
3. Representing submarine combat systems engineering activity in key internal and external meetings, working collaboratively with industry partners
4. Acting as an internal subject matter expert on submarine combat systems, providing advice, facilitating coherent information exchange and conducting engineering peer reviews
5. Delivering in house combat system competency training
This position involves occasional travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This role is full time, 35-hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of two days in the office/onsite and the remainder working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Engineer – Submarine Combat Systems
6. Submarine combat systems including the submarine weapon system from an operational engineering perspective
7. Experience and understanding of maintenance requirements
8. An excellent communicator at all levels, both written and verbal.
9. Capable of using Excel to populate a database
10. Have experience of working with, or as part of, MOD/Royal Navy authorities and sound knowledge of their organisational structure, working practices and policies
Qualifications for the Senior Engineer – Submarine Combat Systems
11. A degree in an engineering related discipline, HNC/HND (or equivalent) or relevant engineering experience
12. You are a member of a professional engineering institute or actively working towards it
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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
20. ‘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