Non-Nuclear Infrastructure Control Officer

Job Title:                      Non-Nuclear Infrastructure Control Officer

Location:                      Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:            £33,900 - £42,400 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF76932

Help Keep Critical Infrastructure Safe, Compliant and Operational

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 Non-Nuclear Infrastructure Control Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Non-Nuclear Infrastructure Control Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a vital role in coordinating and controlling infrastructure activities across a complex engineering environment. Working with operational, maintenance and engineering teams, you'll help ensure that work is planned, authorised and delivered safely while maintaining compliance with site governance requirements.

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

• Coordinating maintenance, engineering and operational activities associated with non-nuclear infrastructure assets.
• Managing permit-to-work, isolation and work control arrangements to ensure activities are delivered safely and compliantly.
• Monitoring work activities to ensure adherence to site procedures, governance requirements and safe systems of work.
• Supporting operational, maintenance and engineering teams to maintain infrastructure availability and performance.
• Collaborating with multiple stakeholders to ensure effective planning, scheduling and control of infrastructure activities.

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

Essential experience of the Non-Nuclear Infrastructure Control Officer

• Knowledge of engineering, facilities management, infrastructure or maintenance environments.
• Understanding of safe systems of work, permit-to-work processes and work control procedures.
• Experience applying site procedures, standards or governance requirements within a regulated environment.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to coordinate multiple activities and competing priorities.
• Experience working collaboratively with operational, maintenance and engineering stakeholders.

Qualifications for the Non-Nuclear Infrastructure Control Officer

• HND in an Engineering discipline, or equivalent knowledge and experience gained within a relevant engineering environment.

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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