Job Title: Nuclear Compliance Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £45,692 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72773
Bring Your Commercial Skills to Projects That Help Create a Safer World
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 Nuclear Compliance Engineer at our Devonport Dockyard.
The role
As a Nuclear Compliance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role in upholding the highest standards of nuclear safety across one of the UK’s most important defence sites. This is a position with genuine purpose ensuring that nuclear operations remain compliant, safe, and aligned with evolving legislation. Your work will directly support national defence capability, influence future safety standards, and give you the opportunity to develop deep expertise in one of the most regulated and meaningful sectors: defence, aerospace, and engineering.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Interpret external regulatory documentation and assess its impact on nuclear licence and authorisation compliance.
- Conduct compliance analyses, identifying gaps and driving actions to achieve the required standards.
- Maintain and develop Licence/Authorisation Condition compliance documentation, including FAIR scoring.
- Provide trusted guidance to stakeholders on nuclear regulatory standards and modern industry practices.
- Support event screening and sentencing, including where events meet (D)INF1 or Schedule 5 thresholds
The role is full time, 35 hours per week.
Core working hours are Monday–Thursday 7:30–15:30 and Friday 07:30–12:30.
Essential experience of the Nuclear Compliance Engineer:
- In‑depth knowledge of nuclear site licence or Ministry of Defence Authorisation Conditions.
- Experience providing authoritative interpretation of nuclear regulatory requirements.
- Proven ability to drive consistent application of regulatory standards.
- Strong analytical and documentation skills.
- Ability to offer independent professional judgement in a highly regulated environment.
Qualifications for the Nuclear Compliance Engineer:
- Professional Auditing qualification.
- NUC1126 Nuclear Regulation and Compliance Training.
- NUC0793/0794 Nuclear Plant Foundation Modules 1 and Nuclear Fundamentals Course Module 2.
- QUAL0002 Submarine Quality Assurance Course.
- Foundation Degree (Level 5) in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline (or equivalent).
- Chartered membership of a relevant professional institute, or ability to demonstrate equivalent professional standing.
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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
We’re Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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: 10/04/2026
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