Mechanical Engineer

Job Title:                     Mechanical Engineer

Location:                     Devonport, Plymouth

Compensation:           £43,935 - £53,795

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF69698

Drive Innovation in Naval Engineering – Join Us as a Mechanical Engineer

The role

As a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll contribute to the design, integration, and delivery of mechanical systems across a range of naval shipbuilding and support programs. Working within a multidisciplinary engineering team, you’ll support system design activities, develop technical documentation, and help resolve engineering challenges throughout the project lifecycle.

This is an exciting opportunity to build expertise across multiple mechanical domains—such as auxiliary systems, power and propulsion, HVAC, outfit, and transversal systems—while progressing towards Chartered Engineer status. You’ll join a forward-thinking environment that values innovation and professional growth.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Assist in design reviews and assurance activities, contributing to hazard assessments and compliance checks.
• Provide engineering support to production and commissioning, helping resolve installation queries and non-conformances.
• Collaborate with suppliers and stakeholders, supporting technical discussions and ensuring alignment with specifications.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including test and commissioning procedures.
• Ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations, including Defence Standards and classification society rules.

This role is full time and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineer

• Extensive experience in marine or mechanical engineering projects.
• Exposure to mechanical systems across ship platforms, including design, integration, and performance evaluation.
• Familiarity with engineering tools such as CAD, systems modelling, and analysis software.

Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineer

• Degree in Marine, Mechanical, or a related engineering discipline.
• Working towards Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional institution (e.g., RINA, IMechE, IMarEst, IET).

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 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. 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 09/12/2025

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