Submarine Waterfront Representative

About the Role

Shape the Future of the UK’s Submarine Capability. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Submarine Waterfront Representative (Platform Mechanical), you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll act as a vital conduit between the submarine waterfront, maintenance environments, and the shipbuilders designing the UK’s future submarine fleet. Your insight will help embed supportability and maintainability into design decisions from the earliest stages. This is an exciting opportunity to influence long-term engineering outcomes, reduce through-life costs, improve submarine availability, and play a meaningful role in programmes critical to national security. You’ll work with senior stakeholders across industry, defence and engineering, while continuing to build your own professional credibility and technical breadth.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Provide expert waterfront insight into submarine design to ensure future platforms are maintainable, supportable and safe.
• Influence design decisions by identifying risks and opportunities that affect through-life support and availability.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including shipbuilders, original equipment manufacturers and customers.
• Contribute to supportability assessments, applying operational experience across multiple systems and disciplines.
• Support programme-level decision making through clear communication and evidence-based engineering input.

Requirements

This role is full time working 35 hours per week, based at any of our main Devonport locations including Plymouth, Bristol, Cumbria, Leicester or Clyde. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a minimum of working 2 days on site.

Essential Experience

• Substantial submarine waterfront experience across multiple maintenance or delivery programmes.
• Strong understanding of submarine systems support, deep maintenance or commissioning environments.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience influencing design or engineering decisions using operational insight.
• Confidence engaging with industrial partners, shipbuilders or defence stakeholders.

Qualifications

• HND, Foundation Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline, or comparable experience.
• Additional vocational or professional engineering qualifications would be advantageous.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain 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.

What We Offer

Babcock offers a range of benefits including a generous holiday allowance, matched contribution pension scheme, access to a Digital GP, employee share scheme, and employee shopping savings portal. We also offer payment of professional fees, special paid leave for reservists, holiday trading options, and a 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering. Additionally, we provide excellent development opportunities and an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

About Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. 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 [email protected] 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.