Job Title: Electrical Design Engineer
Location: Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43, to £53, + 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 an Electrical Design Engineer at our Plymouth site.
The role
As an Electrical Design Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Providing design support for facilities, systems and equipment at Devonport that are essential to the nuclear defuel programme.
Day-to-day, you will be responsible for determining the condition of Electrical Control and Instrumentation assets within defuel facilities and establishing requirements for system/equipment upgrades, life extension and replacement.
1. Maintaining configuration of technical drawings and documentation.
2. Supporting fault diagnosis and rectification.
3. Supporting the design development of EC&I systems through a variety of activities and production of deliverables, such as capturing requirements, specification writing, producing maintenance/commissioning documentation and providing support to implementation activities.
4. Undertaking asset condition surveys and obsolescence studies.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Design Engineer
5. Ability to understand and produce electrical engineering drawings using AutoCAD.
6. Stakeholder management to capture project scopes and requirements for successful project delivery.
7. Awareness of relevant industry legislation for electrical systems, particularly functional and machinery safety.
Qualifications for the Design Engineer
8. HNC in an electrical engineering discipline or an electrical apprenticeship with considerable control and instrumentation experience.
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
9. Generous holiday allowance
10. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
11. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
12. Employee share scheme
13. Employee shopping savings portal
14. Payment of Professional Fees
15. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
16. 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
17. ‘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
18. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.