Job Description

Job Title: Mechanical Engineer - Fuel Handling
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: 40,098 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60423
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 - Fuel Handling at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Mechanical Engineer - Fuel Handling, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Join a specialist team working with state-of-the-art equipment, ensuring operational capability within the fuel handling function at Devonport Site. Play a key role in delivering excellence and maintaining high-performance standards.
Day-to-day, you'll assist in daily fuel handling operations across the site, maintaining strict safety protocols and ensuring compliance with all relevant standards.

• Provide specialist technical expertise while ensuring safety and quality.
• Coordinate approved procedures for execution within the section.
• Commission, calibrate, and maintain Fuel Handling systems and plant.
• Ensure timely completion of procedures and quality records for assurance.
• Promote a strong safety culture and supervise Fuel Handling Team training.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard
There is an opportunity for Optimised Working Patterns (OWP) within this role. OWP is a temporary variation to your standard terms and condition that commits you to support 7-day working arrangements. For full details of the patterns, pay and durations, this can be found in the OWP 1 and OWP 2 agreements (available from hiring manager).
Primarily, it involves 4-week shift cycles consisting of either day/back shift or day/night shift.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineer - Fuel Handling

• Awareness of UK civil and defence nuclear regulatory requirements is beneficial.
• Experience in mechanical engineering within a high-hazard industry.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplined team.
• Experience in setting trade staff to work is advantageous but not essential.

Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineer - Fuel Handling

• ONC in Mechanical Engineering or Equivalent - Essential

Security Clearance
The 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.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard 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. Further details are available at
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 is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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 International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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 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: 19/06/2025
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