Engineer

Job Title:                      Engineer

Location:                      Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria or Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Leicester, Leicestershire or Devon, Plymouth or Faslane, Helensburgh + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            £39,607.00 - £45,692.00 dependent upon experience + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF70605

Keep the UK’s most critical assets ready for the moments that matter most

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineer at one of our sites.

The role

As an Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll work on some of the UK’s most complex and high‑profile engineering programmes, helping to ensure that submarines remain safe, available and ready to deploy when needed.

Day-to-day, you’ll build upon your proven communication skills and deliver engineering tasks that ensure submariners and submarines go to sea safety.

• Delivering engineering tasks that ensure submariners and submarines go to sea safely
• Conducting technical investigations across in‑service and future submarine platforms
• Reviewing and approving technical documentation including calculations, analysis, drawings and reports
• Evaluating technical issues and developing proposals, investigations or engineering solutions
• Supporting or driving Integrated Logistic Support solutions and continuous improvement initiatives

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 Engineer

• Engineering experience, or a strong desire to start or grow a career in engineering
• Demonstrable communication skills with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders
• The ability to influence outcomes and build positive working relationships
• A proactive mindset with a drive to own and shape your professional development

Qualifications for the Engineer

• A recognised STEM qualification, or relevant experience in lieu of formal education

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 13/02/2026

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