Job Title: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: From £39,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71849
Design the Future of Defence Infrastructure
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 at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Mechanical Engineer, your expertise will directly contribute to national security and public safety, while advancing your career in a dynamic engineering environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll be at the forefront of designing and configuring mechanical handling systems that support some of the UK’s most critical defence infrastructure. You’ll provide technical authority and design consultancy for cranes, lifting equipment, and other mechanical handling assets across our Devonport site.
- Providing technical authority for mechanical handling systems.
- Delivering design consultancy for new capabilities and modifications.
- Supporting maintenance and configuration of existing systems.
- Collaborating with project teams to ensure timely delivery.
- Ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineer
- Demonstrated experience in the design and substantiation of mechanical systems and components.
- Strong understanding of engineering regulations, legislation, and standards.
- Proficiency in hand calculations and finite element analysis (FEA).
- Ability to interpret and produce mechanical and electrical engineering drawings.
- Familiarity with crane systems, lifting equipment, and mechanical handling safety.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineer
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or extensive proven experience.
- Chartered status or working towards it is advantageous.
Security ClearanceThe successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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: 09/07/2026
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