About this role
Job Title: Non-Nuclear Senior Support Engineer Location: Plymouth, Devon Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF76937 Help shape the future of a world-class engineering and defence environment 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 Non-Nuclear Senior Support Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site. The role As a Non-Nuclear Senior Support Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary.
You'll play a key role in supporting the management, compliance, safety and long-term stewardship of non-nuclear assets across one of the UK's most significant engineering and defence sites. Working within the Non-Nuclear Plant Management team, you'll help ensure critical infrastructure remains safe, compliant and fit for the future, supporting operational delivery and investment decisions that have a direct impact on national capability.
- Day-to-day you'll be required to: Supporting engineering compliance, asset management and safety activities across non-nuclear plant assets.
- Conducting asset surveys, investigations and technical assessments to support informed decision-making.
- Managing asset registration, disposal, concessions and deviation processes in line with business requirements.
- Collaborating with maintenance, project and operational teams to improve asset performance and compliance.
- Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to support long-term infrastructure and investment strategies.
- This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
- Essential experience of the Non-Nuclear Senior Support Engineer Demonstrable experience supporting asset management, maintenance or compliance-related activities.
- Understanding of engineering design principles and safe engineering practices.
- Awareness of relevant statutory legislation relating to non-nuclear assets.
- Working knowledge of Maximo or similar Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) systems.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work across a diverse engineering environment.
- Qualifications for the Non-Nuclear Senior Support Engineer HND in an engineering discipline, or equivalent relevant engineering experience.
- Security Clearance 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 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+ 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 Babcock 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.
- From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure.
- Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
- We call that lifetime engineering.
- Join us and see how far we can go, together.
- 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 [email protected] 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: 10/11/2026 #BABDESTNUC #NUC-GATEWAY-JOBS