Chief Engineer Submarine Weapons and Complex Systems

Job Title:             Chief Engineer Submarine Weapons and Complex Systems 
Location:             Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:   Competitive salary + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF59842

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 Chief Engineer Submarine Weapons and Complex Systems at our Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Chief Engineer Submarine Weapons and Complex Systems, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity for an established Engineering Leader in this or a related field to assume a key role in Babcock's contribution to the Submarine Enterprise. You will directly contribute to sustaining engineering support to Naval Operations and the provision of safe, available and capable submarines.  

Day-to-day, you’ll provide critical engineering oversight, guidance and direction for the weapons and complex systems elements of our submarine maintenance, repair and operational support activity for the Royal Navy. Key activities include:
• Working with the MoD customer within the Submarine Delivery Agency to understand the Design Authority requirements for engineering support to deployed submarine weapons and complex systems.
• Providing assurance and oversight to individual submarine maintenance projects
• The conduct of technical reviews
• Capability sustainment for this specialist domains such that engineering activity on submarine weapon systems is conducted by suitably qualified and experienced in accordance with the client’s competency requirements.
• Identifying new initiatives to provide future engineering support for the SDA’s mission

This role is full time, 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 Chief Engineer Submarine Weapons and Complex Systems:
• Experience and knowledge of submarine engineering 
• Experience in customer-facing roles and ability to communicate across all levels of stakeholder
• Strong experience of leading, training and mentoring engineering teams and/or as a project lead engineer
• Demonstrable experience of engineering projects and overcoming engineering challenges 
• Experience in developing engineering capability 
• Experience with technical investigations, reviews and assessment 
• Experience in system engineering and design reviews

Qualifications for the Chief Engineer Submarine Weapons and Complex Systems:

• You'll need a first degree in an engineering or science discipline or demonstrable equivalent experience
• Membership of a relevant professional institution (i.e. IET, IMechE etc.)
• Chartered Engineer status, or working towards it

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 share scheme 
• 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 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 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: 21/10/2024 

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