Senior Design Engineer

Job Title: Senior Design Change Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Up to £63,443 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role : SF65357

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Design Change Engineer at our Devonport site.

As a Senior Design Change Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary—supporting the Royal Navy’s next‑generation warships by leading the design change process from concept to installation.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to plan, mature, and deliver design changes for Royal Navy warships.
• Lead technical governance activities including requirement management, gate reviews, and design reviews.
• Capture and monitor technical requirements for each design change task.
• Conduct investigations and analysis to support problem resolution and design enhancements.
• Ensure supportability is embedded in all design changes, aligning with the Common Support Model (CSM) and Warship Technical Authority (WTA) responsibilities.

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.

• Skilled in end‑to‑end engineering design change processes for complex assets.
• Proficient in managing requirements, conducting design reviews, and verifying design change installations.
• Collaborative experience in delivering through‑life support for complex systems.
• Strong capability in producing high‑quality technical documentation and reports.
• Practical application of project management methodologies to technical programmes.

• Hold an engineering or science qualification, preferably a bachelor's degree, with proven experience in the relevant technical discipline.
• Professionally registered Engineer (IEng or CEng) with a recognised institution (e.g. IET, IMechE), or actively working towards registration through CPD (Desirable).

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 -  ().

• 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 share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading – 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.

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 car 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.

Closing date: 12/09/2025