Senior Mechanical Engineer, Bristol, England, United Kingdom

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Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer

Compensation: Competitive+ Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64022

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 Senior Mechanical Engineer at our Bristol site.

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive+ Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64022

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 Senior Mechanical Engineer at our Bristol site.

The role

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on, practical engineer with enthusiasm for developing innovative solutions for a varied range of challenges in all military land vehicle applications. You must be able to take initiative and highlight opportunities for improving the team processes and best practice.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for, but not limited to; speaking with customers and various other functions in the business for requirement capture, producing CAD models and drawings, producing detailed design reports, investigating new manufacturing technologies, providing engineering input to shop floor challenges, conduct fit, form function assessments, being hands on and conducting various studies on different Babcock and customer sites. You'll also:

Conduct Defect Investigation and root cause analysis of in-service issues
Write Engineering change requests and conduct design change impact assessments
Conduct re-engineering activity consisting of but not limited to: scanning, CAD modelling, material identification, feature analysis, finite element analysis (FEA)
Interact with The Authority via multiple routes including direct conversation, meetings, workshops and digital communication
Assist in developing task lists for the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organisation

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Engineer:

Significant experience in a similar role
Thorough understanding of the design process to solve specific problems

Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Engineer:

You must be educated to degree level with a relevant engineering degree

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Clearance (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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
‘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
Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 04/08/2025

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Location:: Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Salary:: £100,000 - £125,000
Job Type:: FullTime
Category:: Engineering

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