Mechanical Engineer

Job Title:                     Mechanical Engineer

Location:                     Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements + Travel to other sites

Compensation:           Up to £47,500 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF64021

Help design and sustain the systems that protect and support the UK

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Mechanical Engineer at the Babcock Technology Centre near Stoke Gifford, Bristol.

The role

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will join our Design and Supportability team within Through Life Equipment Support, contributing to the engineering excellence behind critical land defence platforms. You will play a key role in developing design solutions, resolving in-service issues, and ensuring equipment performs reliably throughout its lifecycle.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Conduct defect investigations and perform root cause analysis on in-service equipment issues
• Produce engineering change requests and assess design impacts across platforms
• Deliver re-engineering activities including CAD modelling, material analysis and feature evaluation
• Maintain bills of materials and ensure configuration control is upheld
• Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders to produce design reports and support engineering processes

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of Defence Support Group sites on a weekly basis such as; Andover, Warminster, Donnington and Bovington alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineer:

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of engineering standards, materials and manufacturing processes
• Apply engineering practices and techniques in a practical environment
• Solve problems creatively with excellent attention to detail
• Use CAD tools to support design and engineering activities
• Bring experience from defence or a similar regulated environment, desirable but not essential.

Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineer:
Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent workplace experience.

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 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 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 09/06/2026

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