Senior Mechanical Services Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Senior Mechanical Services Engineer in Plymouth, playing a pivotal role in delivering complex engineering solutions for critical defence infrastructure. Lead design, development, and handover of mechanical systems, contributing directly to national security programmes.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead complex multidisciplinary engineering projects focused on defence and national security.
- Oversee design, development, and delivery of mechanical systems from concept to handover.
- Manage technical requirements, review engineering deliverables, and drive design reviews.
- Coordinate with various stakeholders including engineering, construction, and operations.
- Mentor engineers and designers, providing technical leadership and guidance.
- Must be a sole UK national eligible for Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Senior Mechanical Services Engineer at Babcock's Devonport Royal Dockyard site, you will be instrumental in delivering complex, multidisciplinary engineering solutions that underpin critical defence infrastructure and national security programmes. Working within a highly skilled engineering team, you will spearhead the design, development, and delivery of mechanical systems and services across major projects, providing essential technical leadership from the initial concept phase through to construction and final handover.
Your Day-to-Day Responsibilities
This role offers a unique opportunity to influence high-profile engineering programmes, collaborate with specialists across a range of disciplines, and advance your career within one of the UK's leading defence, aerospace, and engineering organisations. Your contributions will be vital to the safe operation, maintenance, and future readiness of strategic infrastructure, while also providing avenues to expand your technical expertise and leadership capabilities.
- Lead the delivery of mechanical services and multidisciplinary design work packages, ensuring adherence to agreed safety, quality, schedule, and cost requirements.
- Manage complex technical requirements, scrutinise calculations, drawings, specifications, and other engineering deliverables to guarantee fit-for-purpose solutions.
- Drive essential processes such as design reviews, risk assessments, constructability activities, and engineering assurance.
- Coordinate effectively with stakeholders across engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, and supply chain to ensure successful project delivery.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers and designers, providing crucial technical leadership across project teams.
Essential Experience and Qualifications
To excel in this role, you will possess:
- Experience in designing and implementing mechanical systems and services, with a particular focus on fluid, water, piping, pneumatic, or hydraulic systems.
- Proven experience in substantiating and managing complex engineering requirements within regulated industries.
- Experience supporting the construction, operation, maintenance, repair, or refit of complex engineering facilities, ideally within defence, nuclear, marine, or infrastructure sectors.
- Strong technical design management experience spanning the full engineering design lifecycle.
- A Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
Desirable Attributes
- Chartered Engineer status.
- Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution.
- Significant demonstrable engineering experience that enables registration with the Engineering Council at Incorporated Engineer or Chartered Engineer level.
Security Clearance Requirement
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National and be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this position. Eligibility for roles may be influenced by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency held or previously held, due to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.