Job Title: Senior Project Engineer - Learning From Experience
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £45, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Drive Improvement and innovation Across Major Defence Engineering Programmes
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 Project Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Senior Project Engineer, you’ll help shape the development of industry‑leading Learning From Experience (LFE) practices across some of the UK’s most significant defence engineering and infrastructure projects. Working at the heart of the Naval Nuclear enterprise, you’ll support critical submarine programmes by driving learning, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
Day-to-day, you’ll have a varied role, with high‑visibility and exposure to stakeholders across engineering, project management, operations, assurance and safety. You’ll play a pivotal part in strengthening organisational capability and ensuring that insights from past activities lead to better outcomes in the future.
1. Investigate LFE cases raised by submarine projects and identify root causes.
2. Facilitate and manage LFE workshops with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
3. Capture, collate and produce detailed LFE reports for presentation to internal audiences.
4. Identify and implement continuous improvement activities that enhance the LFE Management Process.
5. Maintain LFE databases to ensure information is captured accurately and can be used to inform future decision‑making.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Engineer
6. Experience managing multiple workstreams within a project environment.
7. Awareness of project delivery frameworks within engineering or infrastructure settings.
8. Experience working within a project‑based organisation.
9. Demonstrated ability to apply learning from past activities to future improvements.
10. Knowledge of applications such as PEPS, MCWE and SAP - Desirable
Qualifications for the Senior Project Engineer
11. Association for Project Management Foundation (APMF).
12. Project Planning and Control certification.
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 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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