Job Title: Senior Supportability Engineer – Design Change
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £51, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Senior Supportability Engineer – Design Change at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Senior Supportability Engineer – Design Change, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a unique role in which you will be responsible for aspects of the design change development on complex Royal Navy warships from start to finish and being the technical authority for those changes.
Day-to-day, you’ll work collaboratively with your direct report and class cell to plan, mature and set the requirement on the design services to deliver installation guidelines for Royal Navy Warships design changes interacting with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. You will:
1. Collaborate with Warship Support to develop the Type 26 class cell under Common Support Model (CSM) governance
2. Plan and safely deliver capability insertions in line with Warship Technical Authority (WTA) responsibilities
3. Capture and monitor technical requirements for each design change task
4. Lead WTA governance activities, including requirement management, gate reviews, and design reviews
5. Conduct technical investigations and analysis to support problem resolution and design enhancements
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Supportability Engineer – Design Change
6. Skilled in end-to-end engineering design change processes for complex assets
7. Proficient in managing requirements, conducting design reviews, and verifying design change installations
8. Collaborative experience in delivering through-life support for complex systems
9. Strong capability in producing high-quality technical documentation and reports
10. Practical application of project management methodologies to technical programmes
Qualifications for the Senior Supportability Engineer – Design Change
11. Engineering or science qualification (preferably bachelor's) with relevant technical experience
12. Professionally registered (IEng/CEng) or progressing toward registration via CPD with a recognized institution (e.g. IET, IMechE)
Security Clearance
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
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee share scheme
17. Employee shopping savings portal
18. Payment of Professional Fees
19. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
20. 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.
21. ‘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
22. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.