Job Title: Constructive Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43,935 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66664
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 Constructive Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre site.
The role
As a Constructive Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join a team shaping the future of UK submarine capability. As a Constructive Engineer in Naval Architecture and Outfitting, you'll tackle complex engineering challenges across in-service and next-generation platforms—directly impacting national defence through innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver innovative engineering solutions that support and enhance the UK submarine fleet’s structural integrity and operational capability.
- Monitor system performance and support root cause analysis for technical issues or degradation.
- Produce high-quality technical documentation, including reports, calculations, and engineering drawings.
- Contribute to design activities for in-service modifications and capability upgrades, from feasibility through to detailed design.
- Support ship trials, dry dockings, and refits to ensure successful implementation of engineering solutions.
- Prepare bid responses and ensure all work complies with MOD standards, classification society rules, and safety regulations.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Constructive Engineer
- Proficient in engineering tools such as Ansys, MATLAB, MathCAD, Orcaflex, Rhinoceros, AutoCAD/Inventor, and MS Excel.
- Experienced in end-to-end project delivery, including planning, budgeting, scheduling, and cross-disciplinary coordination using tools like MS Project.
- Strong knowledge of ship systems and design, covering propulsion, mooring, towing, anchoring, and onboard habitability systems.
- Skilled in systems engineering, with expertise in integrating complex subsystems into cohesive, functional designs.
- Experienced in hydrodynamic analysis, using Orcaflex and ANSYS Fluent to model marine environments and assess dynamic system behaviour.
Qualifications for the Constructive Engineer
- Degree (BSc, BEng, MSc, or MEng) in Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture or a related STEM discipline.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status with RINA or an equivalent professional institution, or actively working towards registration
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
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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: 08/09/2025
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