Principal Marine Structures Engineer

Job Title:              Principal Marine Structures Engineer
Location:              Plymouth, Bristol, or Rosyth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF59830

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 Principal Marine Structures Engineer at our Plymouth, Bristol, or Rosyth sites.

As a leading provider of naval ship support and maintenance we design, build, assemble, maintain, and upgrade international warships, delivering through-life support across the globe, ensuring that the UK Royal Navy and international navies go to sea safely. Building on the success of the UK MOD Type 31 Frigate we have secured contracts for frigate export variants (AH140) with overseas customers. As well as supporting exports of frigates the engineering team is actively working on other ship newbuild and life extension programs around the world, from small fast attack craft all the way up to aircraft carriers.

We are looking to significantly expand our engineering and ship design teams in order to exploit these opportunities as well as our continuing work on in-service Naval platforms.  

The role
As a Principal Marine Structures Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Day-to-day, you’ll  be responsible for authoring, reviewing and substantiating Marine and Structural designs through calculations, simulations, commissioning, and diagnostic test support.

• You’ll contribute and lead product development throughout the design lifecycle and provide technical support to key customers.
• You’ll act as a Technical Authority and have deep subject knowledge of an aspect of Marine/Structural engineering and have technical responsibility for the delivery of engineering outputs.
• Using analytical engineering software such as finite element analysis, 2D and 3D CAD packages.
• Contributing and leading to Design Reviews, working with Production Teams.

This role is full time, 36 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 Principal Marine Structures Engineer

• High level of developed knowledge and experience within your specialist area, including design development and solutions.
• Experience delivering technical leadership to product development.
• Experience supporting professional development/mentoring to junior team members.
• Experience supporting governance reviews of developed solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience within appropriate analytical software, shipbuilding, and operation and/or maintenance and leadership in an engineering environment ideally within defence would be an advantage.

 
Qualifications for the  Principal Marine Structures Engineer

• Ideally degree qualified, but, HND/HNC level qualification in an engineering discipline with extensive experience in relevant field will be considered.
• Be a member of a relevant institution (e.g., RINA, IET, IMechE, IMarEst etc.) and hold Chartered status.

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 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: 06/12/2024

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