RSE Principal Engineer
// Role Summary
Lead the engineering solutions that help maintain the Royal Navy’s critical assets as a Principal Mechanical Handling Engineer. This role involves providing technical leadership and delivering complex engineering solutions for submarine and warship refit programmes.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of engineers and provide technical oversight for mechanical handling and lifting equipment.
- Oversee technical reviews and approve engineering designs, calculations, and documentation.
- Provide expert guidance for complex engineering challenges in regulated environments.
- Act as an Intelligent Customer, assessing and verifying external engineering solutions.
- Contribute to the successful delivery of submarine and warship refit programmes.
// Role Specification
Principal Mechanical Handling Engineer
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 Principal Mechanical Handling Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Principal Mechanical Handling Engineer, you’ll play a key role in delivering complex engineering solutions that support submarine and warship refit programmes. Leading a team of engineers, you’ll provide technical leadership across the design, assurance and delivery of bespoke mechanical handling and lifting equipment in a highly regulated environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to apply your expertise to nationally important defence programmes while developing your career within one of the UK's leading engineering organisations. You’ll work on technically challenging projects, influence critical engineering decisions and help shape innovative solutions that contribute to the safety and effectiveness of the Royal Navy.
The Role
- Leading a team of engineers and providing technical oversight for the design and delivery of mechanical handling and lifting equipment.
- Overseeing technical reviews and approving engineering designs, calculations and technical documentation.
- Providing expert guidance and solutions to complex engineering challenges within regulated environments.
- Acting as an Intelligent Customer, assessing, challenging and verifying contractor and supplier engineering solutions.
- Supporting the successful delivery of submarine and warship refit programmes through technical leadership and engineering excellence.
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
- Experience designing high-integrity lifting equipment and accessories, ideally within a nuclear regulated environment.
- Strong understanding of relevant engineering regulations, legislation and standards applicable to mechanical handling design.
- Demonstrable experience managing complex engineering design development throughout the full design lifecycle.
- Experience acting in an Intelligent Customer capacity, with the ability to review and verify engineering solutions from external suppliers and contractors.
- Experience working within nuclear, defence or other highly regulated, high-hazard industries.
Qualifications
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional institution, such as IMechE, IMarEST or IET, or actively working towards Chartered status.