Job Title: Senior Calibration Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £43,935 - £53,795 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67403
Play a vital role in precision, safety, and innovation
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 Senior Calibration Engineer at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon.
The role
As a Senior Calibration Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of our Electrical Calibration Centre, leading a team that ensures the accuracy and reliability of critical test and measurement equipment. This is a role where your expertise will directly contribute to product safety, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence across defence and engineering projects.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Leading and mentoring a team of Calibration Engineers to ensure compliance with industry standards and internal procedures
- Managing calibration throughput for a wide range of electrical and electronic equipment, including high-voltage and RF systems
- Authorising calibration certificates and reports, ensuring accuracy and traceability
- Developing and maintaining uncertainty budgets and calibration capabilities
- Supporting compliance with BS EN ISO 17025 and BS EN 10012 standards
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Senior Calibration Engineer
- Working with a broad range of electrical/electronic test equipment and control software
- Diagnosing and repairing electrical/electronic faults
- Applying high-accuracy measurement practices in a quality-driven environment
- Understanding BS EN ISO 17025 and UKAS accreditation processes
- Creating and maintaining calibration procedures and uncertainty budgets
Qualifications for the Senior Calibration Engineer
- HND or equivalent recognised professional status in engineering
- Minimum of HNC in engineering with significant experience in a relevant discipline
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: 29/09/2025