Compliance Project Engineer

Job Title:                      Compliance Project Engineer

Location:                      Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:            £28,300 - £35,400 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF76939

Help keep critical infrastructure safe, compliant and ready for the future

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 Compliance Project Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Compliance Project Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll join the Non-Nuclear Plant Management Team, helping to ensure the safety, compliance and long-term stewardship of non-nuclear assets across one of the UK's most complex engineering and defence environments. Supporting vital infrastructure that underpins national security, you’ll play a key role in monitoring compliance, improving asset management processes and helping to resolve technical and regulatory challenges.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Monitoring and reporting on the compliance status of non-nuclear assets across the site.
• Supporting the management and resolution of identified compliance issues and investigations.
• Assisting with asset registration, disposal activities and asset management processes.
• Providing maintenance and survey compliance support to ensure assets remain safe and fit for purpose.
• Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to drive compliance, safety and continuous improvement initiatives.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Compliance Project Engineer

• Working knowledge of statutory legislation relevant to engineering or asset compliance activities.
• Experience using Maximo or other Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) systems.
• Understanding of engineering design principles and safety practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience engaging effectively with a wide range of stakeholders and supporting asset management or maintenance activities

Qualifications for the Compliance Project Engineer

• ONC, NVQ Level 3, or equivalent qualification in an appropriate engineering or technical discipline

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 29,000 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: 10/11/2026

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