Job Title: Configuration Management Engineering Technician
Location: Various Sites + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69783
Help Shape the Future of Naval 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 Configuration Management Engineering Technician at Devonport, Rosyth or Bristol, near Plymouth, Dunfermline or Bristol, South Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Configuration Management Engineering Technician, you’ll play a key role in supporting major new ship‑build projects—helping ensure that every vessel is designed, built, and supported with absolute accuracy. You’ll be part of a team dedicated to maintaining configuration integrity across multiple ship configurations, ensuring that engineering documentation and technical data remain correct throughout the entire lifecycle.
This is an opportunity to contribute to engineering programmes that safeguard national defence capability while developing your technical expertise in a highly specialised environment. You’ll work closely with the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence, and industry partners, gaining exposure to complex naval platforms and world‑class engineering teams.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Support the implementation and execution of Configuration Management activities in line with project‑specific Configuration Management Plans.
- Maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the shipbuilding community.
- Provide engineering support and advice relating to configuration accounts and technical documentation.
- Ensure accurate configuration data is captured, maintained and accessible to support technical decision‑making.
- Communicate progress effectively, raising potential risks and proposing solutions in a timely manner.
This is a full‑time role based at Devonport, Rosyth or Bristol. Hybrid working patterns are available. Occasional UK travel may be required.
Essential experience of the Configuration Management Engineering Technician:
- Using engineering documentation (drawings, technical records, etc.) to maintain configuration records.
- Understanding change management principles and the control of technical or project documentation.
- Experience with Ministry of Defence processes and publications (highly desirable).
- Knowledge of Configuration Management Plans and relevant industry or Defence Standards.
- Familiarity with the CADMID product lifecycle or similar engineering frameworks.
Qualifications for the Configuration Management Engineering Technician:
- ONC/BTEC Level 3 in a STEM discipline or working towards this through 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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: 27/03/2026
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