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Project Engineer

Project Engineer

locationRosyth, Dunfermline KY11, UK
PublishedPublished: 10/04/2026
Full time

Job Title: Project Engineer

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72816

Help Engineer a Safer, More Sustainable Future at Sea.

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 Project Engineer at our Rosyth, Fife site.

The role

As aProject Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a key role in winning and delivering high‑value engineering projects across the marine, offshore and liquefied gas sectors. Supporting major international shipyards and global customers, your work will help reduce the environmental impact of marine liquefied gas systems while contributing to long‑term energy resilience.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

  • Lead and coordinating project engineering activities across multidisciplinary teams
  • Manage and control project scope, schedule, documentation and progress reporting
  • Prepare and review technical specifications, drawings, vendor data and deliverables
  • Engage with suppliers, including technical reviews, expediting and issue resolution
  • Support project governance, risk management and compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements.

This is a full‑time role working 37.5 hours per week, based at our Rosyth, Fife site. Hybrid working patterns are available, with at least two days based on site. With frequent opportunity to travel internationally.

Essential experience of the Project Engineer:

  • Experience supporting engineering or technical projects in an industrial environment
  • Experience coordinating activities across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
  • Experience preparing, reviewing and progressing technical documentation
  • Experience applying project management and risk processes
  • Strong organisational, communication and problem‑solving skills

Qualifications for the Project Engineer:

  • Degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience within marine, offshore, process or industrial engineering environments (Desirable)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 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

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: 24/04/2026

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