Weld Integrity Senior Engineer

Job Title:                     Weld Integrity Senior Engineer

Location:                     Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            Up to £70,7000 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF63887

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 Weld Integrity Senior Engineer at our Devonport, Plymouth site.

The role

As a Weld Integrity Senior Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We have an opportunity for an engineer to join our growing Weld Integrity team at Babcock. The Weld Integrity team sits within the Welding Design Department. Babcock support the repair and maintenance activities on the Royal Navy’s Warships and Submarines at Devonport Royal Dockyard. In joining our team, you will work alongside the Design Authority, Non-Destructive Testing and Welding Engineering Team to provide technical analysis of vital assets and support there continued service.

Day-to-day, you’ll help to conduct integrity assessments, predominantly Engineering Critical Analysis (ECA) on vital RN assets and dockyard infrastructure.

• Fracture and fatigue analysis / ECA in accordance with BS7910 or API 579.
• Pipe Stress Analysis (PSA) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
• Weld design strength check to EuroCode 3.
• Authoring technical reports to provide technical justification to support production activities.
• Other activities you may be involved in include specification of material testing (fracture toughness), wall thinning assessment (corrosion/erosion), fatigue modelling and specification of fatigue testing for non-standard joint types.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 day in the office/onsite and 4 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Weld Integrity Senior Engineer

• Strong understanding of metallic materials and their failure mechanisms.
• Must have managerial experience within the Nuclear or other high-hazardous industries
• Be eligible/capable of achieving ‘Security Check’ (SC) clearance and NNPPI.

Qualifications for the Weld Integrity Senior Engineer

• BEng or Meng/MSc in a relevant discipline (e.g. Materials Engineering or Mechanical Engineering).

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)  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: 15/06/25