Principal Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 Principal Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will join a forward-thinking, agile environment that fosters professional growth and career progression. This role offers the opportunity to lead impactful engineering work while developing your expertise within a supportive and dynamic team.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide technical support and design consultancy for non-nuclear and nuclear mechanical handling assets at Devonport Dockyard, including cranes, hauling systems, and lifting equipment, ensuring safe, compliant, and effective operation across site activities. Additionally, you will:

• Provide technical support and guidance to maintain the design intent of existing mechanical handling systems and equipment
• Lead multidisciplinary design consultancy projects focused on new systems, modifications, life extension, and capability enhancements for cranes, lifting equipment, and related assets

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Principal Engineer

• Experience in a senior engineering position
• Experience in design and substantiation of components and systems
• Skilled in hand calculations and FEA (finite element analysis)
• Proficient in engineering drawings and 3D modelling (preferably Inventor)
• Knowledge of nuclear or safety-critical environments

Qualifications for the Principal Engineer

• Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering or qualified by experience
• Ideally an engineering chartership

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

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.

Babcock International is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.