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Mechanical Engineer

Location:

Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol with travel required to other sites
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64021

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 at our Bristol site.

The role
As a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. his position offers an exciting opportunity for a proactive, hands-on engineer passionate about creating innovative solutions for diverse challenges in military land vehicle applications. Step into a technical expert role, where you'll analyse faults, devise practical solutions, and design custom upgrades to support the Babcock Land Defence Support Group (DSG) contract and the Ministry of Defence (MOD).

Day-to-day, you’ll 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 provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home. This role also requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineer:

• Proven experience in a similar role.
• Thorough understanding of the design process to solve specific problem.

Qualifications for the 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 maintainSecurity 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 atUnited 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 emailcareers@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.

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