Submarine Combat Systems Engineer Lead

About the job

Submarine Combat Systems Engineer Lead
Location: Hybrid - Devonport, Plymouth, UK, PL1 4SG
Compensation: £60,000 - £65,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF51584

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 Submarine Combat Systems Engineer Lead at our Devonport site.

The role

As the Submarine Combat Systems Engineer Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Focused on the future support requirements of the Royal Navy's next generation combat systems, to ensure Babcock applies its unrivalled in-service support experience to new designs and prepares its capabilities for the ever-increasing complexity of these systems. Your main areas of focus will include the Dreadnought Class and its transition into service and the newly announced SSN AUKUS design.

Day to day, you'll provide proactive technical support to our customer, working collaboratively with other stakeholders across Babcock, the MoD, Royal Navy and industry. You'll be trusted to investigate, develop and offer technical recommendations on real engineering challenges to our customer and to the benefit of all stakeholders where you'll be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of outputs, from understanding requirements, to ensuring appropriate review and acceptance, using domain knowledge to influence the design of future submarines, maximising ease of support in service and integration activities.

• Be the CSET Future Submarine Lead.
• Analyse the future submarine requirements and determine how Babcock can best meet them.
• Provide submarine combat systems Subject Matter Expertise.
• Provide proactive technical support to our customer.

Essential experience of the Submarine Combat Systems Engineer Lead

• Experience of Submarine Combat Systems from an operational engineering perspective.
• Experience and knowledge of the MoD organisation and procurement processes.
• Experience of working in a regulated industry with a wide and diverse stakeholder group is also essential.

This is a full-time role working 36 hours per week. We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. In your role as Combat Systems Future Submarines Lead there is a requirement to attend one of our local Hubs a minimum of 2 days per week.

Qualifications for the Submarine Combat Systems Engineer Lead

• Degree qualified in a relevant engineering-based discipline or HND with significant demonstrable experience.
• Member of relevant professional engineering bodies or in the process of applying.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role and must be sole British National with 5 years residency within the UK.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution 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

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages.

Babcock International

For over 130 years 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: 15^th June 2023