Job Title: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64021
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 Mechanical Engineer.
The role
As a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be delivering engineering expertise across the full lifecycle of Land Defence Platforms, shaping design authority decisions, ensuring operational readiness, and providing critical in-service support that directly impacts mission success.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Engage with customers and internal teams to capture and clarify technical requirements.
- Create accurate CAD models and detailed engineering drawings to support design activities.
- Produce comprehensive design reports and documentation to ensure quality and compliance.
- Investigate and evaluate emerging manufacturing technologies to drive innovation.
- Provide expert engineering input to resolve shop-floor challenges and improve processes.
This role is full time working 37 hours per week and is mainly based on site at Bristol. You will be required to travel to Warminster, Bovington, Andover and Donnington with the occasional overnight stay required to meet operational needs.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineer:
- Strong understanding of the design process and ability to apply it effectively to resolve complex engineering challenges.
- Proven experience collaborating within a multidisciplinary engineering team to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Demonstrated capability to adopt a practical, hands-on approach when addressing technical problems.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineer:
- Proven experience in an engineering role with a strong track record of delivering quality solutions.
- Relevant engineering degree (or equivalent) and a clear aspiration to achieve Chartered status. (Desirable)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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.
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: 21/05/2026
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