Job Title: Design Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £43,935 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67862
Design the Future of Defence Infrastructure
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 Design Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Design Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of national defence infrastructure, providing technical support and design consultancy for electrical systems across both nuclear and non-nuclear facilities, including Ministry of Defence (MOD) establishments.
Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, tackle challenging legacy infrastructure, and help shape the future of critical systems that keep the Royal Navy operational.
- Providing technical support for existing electrical systems and equipment
- Specifying replacement components and maintaining configuration documentation
- Supporting fault diagnosis, asset health reporting, and obsolescence studies
- Delivering design consultancy for new systems and modifications
- Applying design and safety processes across the full lifecycle - from concept to commissioning
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Design Engineer
- Strong understanding of electrical engineering principles
- Proficient in IET Wiring Regulations (BS7671)
- Skilled in interpreting and producing electrical engineering drawings
- Experience with electrical building services systems
- Background in design engineering
Qualifications for the Design Engineer
- Minimum HNC or equivalent in Electrical/Electronic Engineering (or working towards it)
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: 28/10/2025
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