Senior Design Engineer

Job Title:            Senior Design Engineer 
Location:            Ashchurch, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:  Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:          Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF63217

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 Senior Design Engineer at our Ashchurch site.

The role

As a Senior Design Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Offering a fantastic and rare opportunity to work within a multi-discipline design team, working on new and exciting projects as part of a rapidly expanding organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be the electrical/mechanical subject Matter Expert to lead the design of a varied project portfolio.

• Provide cross discipline technical solutions by developing customer requirements and concepts into high quality products, requirements could be via a detailed specification or verbal explanation of a problem that needs solving.
• Working within a small team of engineers producing detailed specifications, drawings, overseeing the creation of high-quality designs documentation and other technical deliverables through the lifecycle. 
• To support as required in the preparation of estimates, bid documentation, specification, pricing, tender, Gate and proposal documents for new opportunities.
• The role requires a good understanding of engineering and design practices as relevant to a design discipline including appropriate CAD skills.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements. 

Essential experience of the Senior Design Engineer 

• Significant years' experience in a similar role, delivering M&E design solutions. 
• Experience in electrical/electronic engineering.
• Experience in undertaking engineering calculations.
• Experience in technical document production and configuration control.
• Experience in creating electrical and mechanical drawings.

Qualifications for the Senior Design Engineer 

• HNC/HND or Degree in engineering or demonstrable experience in relevant roles.

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
• 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.

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