NDT Engineer

About the job

Job Title: NDT Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £35,966- £40,388 dependent on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF53635

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an NDT Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As an NDT Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary where you will have the opportunity to work on various Royal Navy platforms, undertaking a variety of different Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) applications, across the industrial and non-industrial environment.

Day to day, you'll carry out all forms of NDT to a given specification and censor the results to the applicable acceptance standards. This may include the role of carrying out Team Leader duties supervising a mixed team of Babcock and contract staff engaged in carrying out radiographic examinations.

Responsibilities as an NDT Engineer will include:

• Carrying out various Non-Destructive Testing methods and techniques across both naval and commercial platforms
• Working effectively as part of a team, assisting in meeting cost and timescale targets to help project's deliver on their respective deadlines and milestones
• Being able to communicate well with internal and external organisations often providing technical advice on NDT to the customer as and when required
• Undertaking various Personnel Certification (PCN) in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) as required
• Adhering to established inspection procedures and written instructions
• Supporting the NDT Department in the development and application of NDT methods. techniques and procedures to support the operational effectiveness of the Department

This role is a full time role (36 hours) based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the NDT Engineer:

• Ship/submarine fabrication or refit experience in an engineering discipline, or previous experience in NDT, preferably in an engineering field.

Qualifications for the NDT Engineer:

• You will have an ONC (Constructive/Mechanical based) in an engineering discipline or multi-disciplined PCN level 2 qualifications is desirable. Craft/Technical apprenticeship.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role. You must be a British National and be capable of holding NNPI, PSA and Atomic security clearances.

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.

Closing date: 09/10/2023