Job Title: Supportability Engineer
Location: Faslane, Helensburgh + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,692.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67058
Lead the Future of Submarine Support Engineering
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Supportability Engineer at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The Role
As a Supportability Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in supporting one of the most complex and strategically important engineering programmes in the UK today. You’ll ensure the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet has accurate, assured and fully traceable technical and configuration information - information that directly supports operational availability, safety, and national security.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide support at the Waterfront and be responsible for design information management. Your key responsibilities will include:
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Maintain accurate configuration data and datum pack records for all submarine-installed items in line with the Configuration Management Plan.
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Maintain up-to-date records of submarine technical documentation to ensure full Quality Assurance standards are met.
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Manage and maintain all Design Change Management documentation within the Submarine Definition Database.
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Work as part of a specialist team, acting as a subject matter expert across Babcock, the Royal Navy, Ministry of Defence and industry partners.
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Provide support at the Waterfront, ensuring design information is effectively controlled and communicated.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Supportability Engineer:
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Experience working with engineering documentation such as technical drawings and records.
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Understanding of change management and the control of project or engineering documentation.
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Ability to work independently, challenge existing processes, and make informed decisions with incomplete information.
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Strong communication skills and confidence engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
Qualifications for the Supportability Engineer:
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NVQ Level 3 or above in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics discipline, with willingness to work towards Level 4 as part of continued professional development.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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
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: 16/02/2026
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