Commissioning Engineer - Mechanical

Job Title:                     Commissioning Engineer

Location:                     Rosyth, Fife

Compensation:           £43,671 – £46,064

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF72219

Engineer the Future of Maritime Defence

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Commissioning Engineer at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife. As part of our Marine sector, you’ll be involved in engineering programmes that support national defence and global security—helping deliver vessels and mission systems that protect people, safeguard assets, and strengthen resilience worldwide.

The role

As a Commissioning Engineer, you’ll ensure that critical ship systems and equipment are expertly inspected, tested, and validated—helping to deliver world‑class maritime platforms that meet performance, safety, and quality standards. Your work will make a direct contribution to national security while accelerating your own technical growth and professional development.

This is an exciting opportunity where your decisions, insight, and problem‑solving will influence major design-and-build programmes, including export variants, refits, and new commercial applications.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Inspect, test and evaluate equipment to support safe and timely commissioning across a wide range of applications.
• Monitor and record commissioning progress, analyse test results, and witness final system acceptance.
• Ensure all documentation meets configuration control and Quality Assurance requirements.
• Investigate and diagnose issues, gathering information from multiple sources to understand defects and recommend solutions.
• Support safe commissioning of plant, equipment, and installations in line with project and programme requirements.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Commissioning Engineer:

• Experience creating and maintaining test documentation and analysing test results.
• Experience writing safety documentation, including risk assessments, method statements, and procedures.
• Ability to manage hazards in line with ALARP and safe working standards.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capability.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders and work safely within technical environments.

Qualifications for the Commissioning Engineer:

• HNC/HND in a Mechanical Engineering discipline with relevant industry experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 13/04/2026

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