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Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG
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Job Title: Senior Naval Architect
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69787
Shape the Future of Naval Engineering
About Us
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Naval Architect at Devonport, near Plymouth, Devon.
The role
As a Senior Naval Architect, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a highly prestigious position within our complex shipbuilding programme, where you’ll develop designs through concept and early-stage design and support the bidding process. Your work will make a real difference — not only to our customers and national security but also to your own career development and personal growth.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
* Prepare and produce substantiation reports for marine solutions throughout all design lifecycle phases.
* Liaise with design teams and stakeholders to ensure coordination and functionality of system designs.
* Develop innovative design solutions with robust engineering substantiation.
* Provide solutions to manufacturing and installation issues by resolving technical and production queries.
* Support design reviews and ensure compliance with recognised standards.
This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Naval Architect:>
* Proven naval architecture design experience from a highly regulated industry.
* Proficiency with analytical software such as Paramarine, NAPA, FORAN, Maxsurf, FEA, CFD and/or CAD.
* Experience contributing to design reviews.
Qualifications for the Senior Naval Architect:
* Ideally degree-qualified in an engineering discipline (HND/HNC with extensive experience considered).
* Membership of a relevant institution (e.g., RINA, IET, IMechE, IMarEst) and Chartered or Incorporated status (or working towards).
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
* 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. 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
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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.
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