Job Title: Future Submarine Senior Combat Systems Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon or Faslane, Helensburgh or Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £49,943 to £55,870 dependent upon experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57508
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 Future Submarine Senior Combat Systems Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard, HMNB Clyde or Babcock Technology Centre site.
The role
As a Future Submarine Senior Combat Systems Engineer, 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.
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.
- Provide submarine combat system advice to enable and influence effective submarine capability beyond the original design life
- 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
- Maximise ease of support in service and integration activities
- Communicate effectively within the submarine combat system enterprise to a wide variety of stakeholders
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Future Submarine Senior Combat Systems Engineer:
- Experience of submarine combat systems from an operational engineering perspective with Astute Class Vanguard Class submarine combat system knowledge being highly desirable
- Experience and knowledge of working within an engineering lifecycle role within the submarine support enterprise
- Experience and knowledge of the MoD organisation and procurement processes
- Experience and knowledge of the submarine build and transition into service process
- Experience of working in a regulated industry with a wide and diverse stakeholder group
Qualifications for the Future Submarine Senior Combat Systems Engineer:
- 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
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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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.
- Flexible locations.
- Opportunity to work with innovative technology.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.
Closing date: 22/11/2024
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