Job Description

Job Title: Mechanical Systems Design Engineer
Location: Plymouth
Compensation: \xc2\xa339,408 - \xc2\xa348,252
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF51900

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 Systems Design Engineer at our Devonport site.

The role
As a Mechanical Systems Design Engineer, you\'ll have a role that\'s out of the ordinary. You will be significant in providing engineering support and advice whilst undertaking design and inspection activities relating to Mechanical Services across the Dockyard, which is one of the largest naval bases in Western Europe.

Day to day, you\'ll maintain and control modifications to, and deviations from, the design intent of nuclear implicated and non-nuclear mechanical systems, acting as the custodian of reference design documentation, primarily working with process plant and piping systems.

Responsibilities will also include:

• Undertaking design activities from requirements capture, design development, implementation and close out, to through-life support, decommissioning and disposal
• Ensuring compliance with licence conditions, statutory legislation and design codes/standards
• Producing design guidance, substantiation and analyses and delivering against agreed budgets/timescales.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you\'ll continually develop your knowledge and expertise. Professional development is also encouraged and fully supported with mentoring available for support to professional registration.

Essential experience of the Mechanical Systems Design Engineer:

• Proven background as a Mechanical Design Engineer with knowledge of mechanical services systems (water services, steam & condensate, high and low pressure air, industrial gases etc.), knowledge of pressure systems, technical substantiation, computer aided design and engineering and demonstrable experience of having applied the whole design lifecycle.
• You will be provided with a bespoke development plan with appropriate training which may cover Water Regulations, Pressure Systems Safety Regulations, Steam and Condensate systems, Natural and Industrial Gas Systems.

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Qualifications for the Mechanical Systems Design Engineer:

• A minimum of a Higher National Certificate in a relevant engineering discipline

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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 130 years Babcock International have 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.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 22/08/2023

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