Job Title: Senior Naval Architect
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £48, - £58, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the future of submarine engineering
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 Naval Architect at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Senior Naval Architect, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll take on technically complex, non‑routine engineering work that sits at the heart of the UK’s submarine enterprise. This is a role with real influence ensuring vessels meet stringent safety, regulatory, and classification standards, while supporting operational excellence across critical defence programmes.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
1. Delivering survey activity and close‑out in line with contract requirements and performance measures
2. Providing technical assurance through auditing, review, and approval of surveys across Babcock, subcontractors, and suppliers
3. Ensuring compliance with defence, regulatory, and classification standards
4. Supporting the Principal Naval Architect with technical leadership and mentoring of junior colleagues
5. Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to maintain quality, safety, and operational excellence
Please note that this position involves working in confined spaces. Candidates must be able to work comfortably and perform tasks in restricted spaces.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday, 07:15 – 16:45 and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 1 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Naval Architect
6. Working knowledge of relevant defence, British, and classification society standards and regulatory frameworks
7. Experience with nuclear submarines, understanding structural integrity, systems, and operational requirements
8. Knowledge of Ministry of Defence organisations and survey documentation processes
9. Application of safe systems of work, including COSHH and risk assessments
10. Experience in quality assurance and compliance environments
Qualifications for the Senior Naval Architect
11. Chartered Engineer status as a Naval Architect or Maritime Constructive Engineer, or equivalent demonstrable submarine structural experience
12. Hull Inspection, Damage and Repair training
13. Painting Inspector Level 1 – ICorr would be advantageous
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 .
What we offer
14. Generous holiday allowance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
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
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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