Job Title: Senior Maintenance Support Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £42, + 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 Maintenance Support Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Senior Maintenance Support Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Supporting the nuclear submarine program you will play a crucial role within the team to support the day to day delivery of the maintenance, upgrade and repairs to the facilities, ensuring the safe and efficient delivery of maintenance, upgrade and repair activities through the nuclear facilities maintenance planning cycle.
The Senior Maintenance Support Engineer (SMSE) will provide day-to-day line management, guidance, and support to the Maintenance Support Engineers (MSE’s). Managing and coordinating all activities, ensuring they achieve the deliverables and expectations of their role, including hosting regular one-to-one meetings, wellbeing checks and performance review meetings.
1. Identifying and delivering the requirements of work packages to enable the delivery of forthcoming maintenance activities on nuclear assets and facilities.
2. Using and developing the maintenance look-ahead (four to sixteen weeks) and the maintenance readiness and implementation / requirements tracking process, to ensure that all the needed methods, materials and equipment are in place, before the maintenance period starts.
3. Overseeing the development of the Plan Of The Week (PLOW) and deliver work packages to the maintenance delivery teams, working with them to develop future maintenance packages.
4. Leading the Maintenance Support Engineers in their day-to-day activities.
5. Assisting Maintenance Support Engineers and maintenance delivery teams with problem solving and the provision of emergent requirements throughout the maintenance period.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Senior Maintenance Support Engineer
6. Relevant experience within the engineering industry.
7. Operations and Maintenance / Nuclear environment is desirable.
8. Knowledge and understanding of dockside Services and facilities
9. Proficient in the application of project management tools and how they are utilised throughout the Project Lifecycle
10. Proficient with Microsoft Office applications; Outlook, Word, Excel and Visio.
Qualifications for the Senior Maintenance Support Engineer
11. Minimum Level 3 in an engineering field or equivalent technical experience (evidence to be provided)
12. APM Project Fundamentals - Desirable.
13. Submarine Quality Assurance Course - Desirable.
14. Nuclear Foundation – Module 1 and 2 - Desirable.
15. Health and Safety Management of Sub-Contractors - Desirable.
16. IOSH Managing Safely - Desirable.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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
17. Generous holiday allowance
18. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
19. Employee share scheme
20. Employee shopping savings portal
21. Payment of Professional Fees
22. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
23. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
24. ‘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
25. Opportunities to develop your career.