Overview

Supportability Engineer – Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute. Location: Faslane, Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL. Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid.

Role

As a Supportability Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of one of the most complex support arrangements in the UK today. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet is fully supported – tracking what’s fitted, where it’s fitted, who supplies it and how it’s maintained. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to national defence while developing your career in a dynamic, high-impact environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide support at the Waterfront and be responsible for design information management. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining configuration data and datum pack records for all items fitted to Royal Navy submarines
• Managing the status of submarine technical documentation to ensure quality assurance
• Overseeing design change documentation within the submarine definition database
• Collaborating with Babcock teams, the Royal Navy, MoD, and industry partners
• Acting as a subject matter expert in supportability engineering

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience

• Using engineering documentation such as drawings and technical records
• Understanding of change management and control of engineering documentation
• Working independently and making informed decisions with limited data
• Communicating effectively across all levels of an organisation

Qualifications

• HNC/BTEC Level 4 in a STEM discipline (or equivalent vocational experience)
• Working towards or holding Incorporated Engineer status with a relevant institution

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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• 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.