Job Title: Senior Project Engineer - Learning From Experience
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £45,692 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72212
Drive Improvement and innovation Across Major Defence Engineering Programmes
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 Project Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Senior Project Engineer, you’ll help shape the development of industry‑leading Learning From Experience (LFE) practices across some of the UK’s most significant defence engineering and infrastructure projects. Working at the heart of the Naval Nuclear enterprise, you’ll support critical submarine programmes by driving learning, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
Day-to-day, you’ll have a varied role, with high‑visibility and exposure to stakeholders across engineering, project management, operations, assurance and safety. You’ll play a pivotal part in strengthening organisational capability and ensuring that insights from past activities lead to better outcomes in the future.
- Investigate LFE cases raised by submarine projects and identify root causes.
- Facilitate and manage LFE workshops with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
- Capture, collate and produce detailed LFE reports for presentation to internal audiences.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement activities that enhance the LFE Management Process.
- Maintain LFE databases to ensure information is captured accurately and can be used to inform future decision‑making.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Engineer
- Experience managing multiple workstreams within a project environment.
- Awareness of project delivery frameworks within engineering or infrastructure settings.
- Experience working within a project‑based organisation.
- Demonstrated ability to apply learning from past activities to future improvements.
- Knowledge of applications such as PEPS, MCWE and SAP - Desirable
Qualifications for the Senior Project Engineer
- Association for Project Management Foundation (APMF).
- Project Planning and Control certification.
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 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
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: 23/03/2026
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