Submarine waterfront representative

Submarine Waterfront Representative

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG; Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF; Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL; Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Submarine Waterfront Representative (Platform Mechanical)

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70732

Shape the Future of the UK’s Submarine Capability.

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 Submarine Waterfront Representative at our Plymouth, Bristol, Cumbria, Leicester or Clyde site.

The Role

As a Submarine Waterfront Representative (Platform Mechanical), you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll act as a vital conduit between the submarine waterfront, maintenance environments, and the shipbuilders designing the UK’s future submarine fleet. Your insight will help embed supportability and maintainability into design decisions from the earliest stages.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence long‑term engineering outcomes, reduce through‑life costs, improve submarine availability, and play a meaningful role in programmes critical to national security. You’ll work with senior stakeholders across industry, defence and engineering, while continuing to build your own professional credibility and technical breadth.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Provide expert waterfront insight into submarine design to ensure future platforms are maintainable, supportable and safe
• Influence design decisions by identifying risks and opportunities that affect through‑life support and availability
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including shipbuilders, original equipment manufacturers and customers
• Contribute to supportability assessments, applying operational experience across multiple systems and disciplines
• Support programme-level decision making through clear communication and evidence‑based engineering input.

This role is full time working 35 hours per week, based at any of our main Devonport locations including Plymouth, Bristol, Cumbria, Leicester or Clyde. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a minimum of working 2 days on site.

Essential experience of the Submarine Waterfront Representative:

• Substantial submarine waterfront experience across multiple maintenance or delivery programmes
• Strong understanding of submarine systems support, deep maintenance or commissioning environments
• Proven ability to work collaboratively within multi‑disciplinary engineering teams
• Experience influencing design or engineering decisions using operational insight
• Confidence engaging with industrial partners, shipbuilders or defence stakeholders

Qualifications for the Submarine Waterfront Representative:

• HND, Foundation Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering discipline, or comparable experience
• Additional vocational or professional engineering qualifications would be advantageous

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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit.
• 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.