Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site, you'll play a key role in supporting the UK's defence and national infrastructure.

The Role

As a Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer, you will take a leading role in the delivery of major infrastructure and engineering programmes. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide technical leadership across complex mechanical handling, crane systems, dockside infrastructure, and operational support projects critical to the Royal Navy and the UK.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence projects from concept through to implementation, own key work packages, mentor engineers, and help shape innovative engineering solutions within one of the UK's most significant defence environments. You'll gain exposure to technically challenging projects while developing your leadership and professional engineering career in a business committed to long-term growth and development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the delivery of mechanical handling, dockside infrastructure, and multidisciplinary engineering work packages from concept through to handover.
• Managing technical requirements, reviewing engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, and design documentation to ensure high-quality project delivery.
• Designing and integrating crane protection systems, mechanical handling equipment, access control solutions, and infrastructure improvements.
• Coordinating with construction, civil, mechanical, electrical, and control systems stakeholders to manage complex engineering interfaces.
• Mentoring engineers and designers while driving safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across projects.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week, and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential Experience:

• Experience leading complex engineering projects involving cranes, mechanical handling systems, or mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
• Experience managing crane safety, lifting equipment, protection systems, and mechanical handling solutions within regulated environments.
• Experience delivering multidisciplinary design projects and managing interfaces across mechanical, electrical, controls, and civil engineering disciplines.
• Experience working within highly regulated sectors such as defence, nuclear, marine, heavy engineering, or critical infrastructure.
• Experience overseeing design assurance, technical reviews, safety management, and engineering governance throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status - Desirable.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution - Desirable.
• Significant engineering experience with the capability to achieve Engineering Council registration at Chartered Engineer level - Desirable.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 benefit
• 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone thrives. We are a disability confident committed employer and happy to talk about flexible working.