Principal Structures Engineer

Job Title:             Principal Structures Engineer
Location:             Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    £56,837 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF58718

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 Structures Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Principal Structures Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Babcock has started a series of major infrastructure projects at Devonport in Plymouth. Over the next 10 years Babcock will develop state of-the-art facilities to meet the evolving requirements of the UK’s Royal Navy.
 
Day-to-day, you will manage and review the design packages by subconsultants and work with users and other stakeholders to ensure that the integrated facility provides the sustainment capability. You will use your civil /structural engineering expertise to ensure the end product meets the technical and operational requirements of the facility. 
 

• Management of the multidisciplinary design elements of the buildings, ensuring designer technical performance and making appropriate technical responses
• Provide technical design guidance, review of the overall design package, and provide integration of the designs with other design packages 
• Ensure that the design documentation covers the scope of operations required by the Project Manager and is produced to agreed standards, schedule and budget
• Plan for effective project implementation, identifying key factors and effectively contributing to the project’s technical planning process
• Ensuring effective quality management arrangements operate and deliver through compliance with Babcock’s Business Management System and Technical Manual

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 day in the office/onsite and the rest working from home.

Essential experience of the Principal Structures Engineer

• Major new buildings, preferably multistorey buildings with multi functionality (hospitals etc.)
• Civil engineering (predominantly buildings related experience)
• Seismic design (preferable)

Qualifications for the Principal Structures Engineer

• A minimum of a Batchelor’s Degree in Engineering. 
• Preferred Chartered Engineer

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
• 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills

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: 24/09/2024

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