Senior Technical Engineer

Job Title: Senior Technical Engineer
Location: Devonport, Plymouth
Compensation: £41,378.00
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54735
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 Technical Engineer at our Devonport site.
The role
As a Senior Technical Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. The successful applicant will be making a difference to keeping our fleet at sea, you will help deliver continuous availability of critical equipment on both Surface Ships and Submarines.
Day to day, you'll Investigate and resolve technical queries from a variety of sources, and raising and answering S2022 forms through the Maritime Collaborative Working Environment via the Surface Ship Definition Database (SSDD) and Submarine definition Database (SDD) against scope of the contracts supported, as well as:

• Develop and implement design and support improvements, such as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) actions, to identify cost/lead-time/availability improvements for the Marine Systems contracts.
• Resolve obsolescence issues identified by the Obsolescence Manager, applying the most appropriate resolution to gain the maximum benefit to the project.
• Perform Unit Maintenance Management System (UMMS) Monitoring and suggesting changes to improve the reliability of assets.
• Assist in maintaining a technical document library. This includes reviewing and updating Books of Reference (BRs) and Illustrated Parts Catalogues (IPCs).

This role is a hybrid role with 2 days per week onsite at Devonport.
Essential experience of the Senior Technical Engineer:

• It would be advantageous to have a relevant background and experience in the following -
• Experience of working on operational marine systems including Sea Water Systems (pumps), Domestics Equipment, Hydraulics, Switch gear, Control Systems and Motors
• A good understanding of asset and configuration management.
• Knowledge of obsolescence resolution techniques
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.
• Ability to produce concise reports.

Qualifications for the Senior Technical Engineer:

• The candidate will have a relevant electrical engineering qualification such as degree/equivalent, or equivalent experience and advantageous.
• The candidate will ideally have IEng status or working towards professional registration.

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 most 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 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: 22/01/2024
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