Weapon Engineering Section Head

About the job

Job Title: Weapon Engineering Section Leader
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Attractive Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 Weapon Engineering Section Leader at our HMNB Devonport site.

The role

As a Weapon Engineering Section Leader, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Working within the support business in the delivery of complex deep maintenance periods for the Royal Navy's landing ships.

Day to day, you'll be engaging with outgoing and incoming ships' staff teams to accept and handover equipment as well as:

• Maintaining mechanical and electrical systems and equipment
• Operate and set to work equipment and systems within the section
• Identifying and rectifying defects
• Accepting equipment from contractors ensuring that all contracted work is complete to the required standard

This role is full time and based onsite at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Weapon Engineering Section Leader

• You will be an experienced Weapon Engineer with a track record of successful section management and delivering change.
• An excellent communicator you will be comfortable with written and verbal communications with the ability to interact at all levels.
• You will have a good understanding of Systems engineering and be agile and adaptable.

Qualifications for the Weapon Engineering Section Leader

• HNC qualified or equivalent in an engineering specialisation with significant demonstrable experience
• The successful candidate must hold, or be eligible to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

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 ten 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.