Technical Support Engineer

Job Title:            Technical Support Engineer - Marine Engineering
Location:            Portsmouth, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation:  Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:         Full time / Permanent
Role ID:             SF51457

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 Technical Support Engineer at our Porsmouth site.

The Role

As a Technical Support Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll directly be providing engineering technical support to military ships.

Day to day, you’ll react to and provide support to ships that require it.

• Provide marine system technical assistance in support of reactive engineering demands
• Evaluating reactive engineering technical issues and make technical recommendations
• Carrying out technical investigations and analyses and recommend a course of action
• Operating a helpdesk service as required

This role is full time with a hybrid working arrangement (one day in office, four working from home)

Essential experience of the Technical Support Engineer

• Engineering background and knowledge
• A systems approach to problem solving
• Ability to understand engineering failures and determine root cause

Qualifications for the Technical Support Engineer

• HNC / HND in relevant engineering subject preferred however not essential

The successful candidate must hold, or be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, 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

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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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