Senior Engineer - Design Change

About the job

Job Title: Senior Engineer - Design Change
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £49,943 to £55,870 dependent upon experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58035

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 Senior Engineer - Design Change at our Bristol site.

The role
As a Senior Engineer - Design Change, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary which involves supporting Royal Navy Submarines to provide a high calibre of mechanical engineering support to the Ministry of Defence.

Day-to-day, your focus will be planning and managing design change projects across a wide variety of submarine systems which will include liaison with our customer base and our sub-contractor network to ensure we deliver high quality design changes for our customers.

• Own and deliver design change tasks within the Mechanical team, responsible for planning and identifying resource required for the timely and successful execution of tasking
• Work closely with design change sponsor to ensure their goals and requirements are met and support them on decision making for design solutions
• Attend and contribute to design reviews and platform surveys as required by the tasking
• Utilise design teams to produce design change guidance, ensuring requirements have been met, design solutions are sound and outputs are high quality
• Provide support and advice on the resolution of technical issues and the direction of technical tasks

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite at Babcock Technology Centre, Bristol Business Park (North Bristol) and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Engineer - Design Change

• Demonstrable experience of working within a design change engineering role within a regulated industry
• Design change management experience
• Customer relationship management experience
• Strong engineering and problem-solving acumen to ensure design requirements are understood

Qualifications for the Senior Engineer - Design Change

• Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline or have relevant submarine domain engineering background or have design change management background
• Be a member of a relevant institution (e.g. IMechE, IMarEst etc.) and hold or be working towards Chartered or Incorporated status or have a willingness to work towards this as part of continuous professional development

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, 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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• Potential to develop skills.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has 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.

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 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.

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