Waterfront Systems Engineer

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 Waterfront Systems Engineer at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

As a Waterfront Systems Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a vital role in supporting the delivery of submarine maintenance activities at one of the UK's most strategically important naval bases. Working within Waterfront Engineering, you'll help ensure the availability, reliability, and safe operation of critical waterfront systems that support the Royal Navy's submarine fleet.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Leading and supporting the Waterfront Systems team to deliver engineering and maintenance activities safely and effectively.
• Assisting the Waterfront Facility Manager to maximise the utilisation of people, equipment, and resources.
• Ensuring engineering tasks are completed in line with cost, quality, safety, and schedule requirements.
• Implementing and promoting health, safety, quality, and environmental standards across waterfront operations.
• Identifying, investigating, and resolving engineering and operational issues affecting waterfront systems.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at Faslane.

• Supervisory or team leadership experience within a maintenance, repair, or engineering environment.
• Electrical maintenance experience gained within an industrial, marine, defence, engineering, manufacturing, or similar setting.
• Knowledge of safe systems of work, including areas such as working at height and confined spaces.
• Experience developing, mentoring, and supporting team members.
• Good information technology skills, including the use of Microsoft Office applications.

• Recognised SVQ Level 3, equivalent electrical apprenticeship, or HNC (or higher) in an Electrical Engineering discipline.
• Leadership or management qualification such as ILM – desirable
• Authorised Person certification or relevant experience – desirable
• IOSH Managing Safely qualification – desirable

The successful candidate must be 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 -  ().

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger.…