T26 Supportability Engineer

Job Title:              Type 26 Supportability Engineer
Location:              Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    £42,245 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF59062

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 Type 26 Supportability Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Type 26 Supportability Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Type 26 (T26) Frigate Support Engineering Team. You will be working alongside other highly qualified and knowledgeable Engineers, Managers and Technicians to help deliver the support for this new class of Royal Navy warship. 

Day-to-day, you’ll be working with others to deliver the through life support of this new class of complex warship. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Apply Availability, Reliability, Maintainability & Supportability (ARM&S) & Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) principles to engineering processes and activity to support T26 Through Life Management.
• Provide support as required to T26 design change activities.
• Liaise with various internal and external stakeholders and responsible for interpreting customer requirements to optimise the T26 Support Engineering team activities 
• Work with stakeholders to enable access to / transfer of contracted through life support products and information from the build environment to the in-service support community
• Timely development and delivery of assured technical reports and all other engineering deliverables to the required standard.

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 Type 26 Supportability Engineer:

• Experienced in working with others to deliver the through life support of complex assets
• Experience in in-service support and are aware of the engineering design and maintenance processes used
• An understanding of ARM&S and ILS principles
• Experienced in writing high quality technical reports
• Application of project management methodologies

Qualifications for the Type 26 Supportability Engineer:

• Degree qualified in Engineering discipline or lower qualification with extensive experience will also be considered.   
• Professionally registered Engineer or working towards, IEng or CEng with an approved engineering institution or willingness to work towards as part of continuous professional development. 

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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. 
• Opportunity to work with innovative technology.

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: 27/09/2024

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