Project Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Project Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: £34,160 - £38,393 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54489

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 Project Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Project Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This role is integral to Babcock, ensuring the overall capability of our nuclear rated facilities and allowing for submarine program refits.

Day to day as a Project Engineer, you'll interface with our internal customers within Devonport Royal Dockyard, to ensure efficient and effective delivery of the following functions: support facility project start up, development of the estimation process and alignment with overarching facility's annual plan and Level one schedules.

Responsibilities as a Project Engineer will also include:

• Expediting the project initiation process and support the estimation of work packages.
• Assisting with the correct data set being captured in the Engineering services Facility Annual Plan.
• Monitoring and reporting progress throughout the concept/definition project design capture phases.

This role is full-time, 36 hours per week with a hybrid working arrangement. You can expect to work onsite at our HMNB Devonport two days per week.

Essential experience of the Project Engineer:

• Experience in a facility upgrade or construction projects.
• Stakeholder engagement
• Preferable Primavera (P6) knowledge.
• Effective writing and presentation skills.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft office applications.
• Estimating techniques.

Qualifications for the Project Engineer:

• Qualified to HNC / HND or equivalent in an Engineering-based subject.
• Project management qualifications (APM / Prince2) would be advantageous.

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National and 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.

Closing date: 21/11/2023