Job Title: Risk Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38,084.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70534
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 Risk Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Risk Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting transformation across our project management and control functions, driving world-class delivery performance on submarine maintenance projects. Your work will make a real difference, ensuring projects critical to national security run smoothly and efficiently. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career in defence and engineering while contributing to something bigger.
Day-to-day, you’ll support the Risk Manager to maintain standards and compliance with organisational risk policies.
- Collaborate with joint Project teams during planning and execution phases
- Ensure project risk registers meet quality and compliance standards
- Record and document risk management progress for audit and lessons learned
- Assist in producing risk reports for senior management and customer review
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3-4 days in the office/onsite and 1-2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Risk Engineer
- Awareness of risk management principles and processes
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Analytical and investigative mindset with attention to detail
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team
- Excellent organisational and writing skills
Qualifications for the Risk Engineer
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience in engineering, project management, or risk management
- Professional risk management certification (preferred but not essential)
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
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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