Marine Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Marine Engineer
Location: Bristol, UK - Hybrid - Working from home options available
Compensation: £39,408 - £44,044 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 39581

Creating change together

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 Marine Engineer at our Bristol site.

As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers' defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

Babcock International and Devonport

The Marine Engineer role is based within our Devonport Royal Dockyard business area.

Comprising of 14 dry docks, four miles of waterfront and 25 tidal berths, Devonport is the base for numerous surface vessels as well as the base and refit centre for the Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarines. Devonport has also recently been selected as the base port for the Navy's new Type 26 frigates and will become the maintenance centre for the future submarine programme.

For more than a century, Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence Company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services. We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure and specialist training.

The role

The difference our new Marine Engineer will make
As a Marine Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be joining a team of likeminded Engineers with unrivalled engineering and technical skills to support the delivery of in-service support to a variety of Nations and Naval Vessels across the world.

Day to day, you'll manage complex assets on a daily basis by undertaking activities that underpin their safe maintenance and operation. This includes undertaking engineering analysis to support all sectors within the Babcock team to inform planning, monitoring and control of maintenance work packages.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you'll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role requires regular travel to Bristol, on a weekly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience

* Ideally, you'll need a Foundation Degree in a relevant STEM discipline or be qualified to HNC / BTEC Level 5 in a relevant STEM discipline with demonstrable experience in a relevant engineering field.
* Proficiency, in the use of appropriate project management & IT tools (such as MS Office suite).
* You will be methodical, have a keen eye for detail, have the ability to prioritise, and work on your own initiative with a flexible attitude.
* You will ideally, hold or be working towards IEng / CEng status with the engineering council.
* You'll be an excellent communicator and able to articulate complex arguments for a wide range of stakeholders to understand. You'll need to be able demonstrate the motivation to drive issues to completion and to continue your professional development.

What we offer

Generous benefits including:
* Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
* Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
* Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
* Employee share scheme - save tax and national insurance on shares, with 1 free share per 10 purchased
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Employment development allowance - £125 per year
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reward and Recognition Scheme linked to Health and Safety
* Working from home and flexible work patterns
* Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
* Flexible benefits, including cycle to work scheme, discounts and our Share Ownership Scheme
* Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to be at your best

Babcock International
For over 130 years, we 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. Change begins with our people and our shared Principles: be curious; be courageous; own and deliver; think: outcomes; collaborate; and be kind. These values not only guide the way we work, but also our efforts to reach net-zero carbon. Yes, our ambitions are big, but together, we can achieve them.