Job Title: Maintenance Substantiation Engineer - Electrical
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £45,692 - £51,068 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68588
Create a Safer, More Secure World with Babcock
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 Maintenance Substantiation Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Maintenance Substantiation Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Your work will directly support national security and public safety, making this a career where your expertise truly matters.
Day-to-day, you’ll be at the heart of ensuring the reliability and safety of critical electrical assets across Devonport’s infrastructure, including both nuclear and non-nuclear facilities.
- Producing and updating maintenance documentation for electrical assets using technical drawings and manufacturer manuals.
- Developing maintenance regimes for a wide range of assets across the site.
- Collaborating with technical authority engineering teams to provide guidance and support.
- Interacting with on-site maintainers and internal stakeholders to ensure compliance and safety.
- Responding to safety reporting by amending documentation as required.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Maintenance Substantiation Engineer
- Electrical Test and Inspection expertise.
- Background in EC&I, HV/LV systems or Fire Alarm systems.
- Ability to interpret technical drawings and documentation.
- Understanding of electrical legislation.
- Commissioning engineering experience - Desirable
Qualifications for the Maintenance Substantiation Engineer
- Level 4 qualification in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Level 3 considered if committed to achieving Level 4 and with relevant experience.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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: 20/01/2026
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