Job Title: Engineering Technician
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38, + 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 Engineering Technician supporting the Royal Navy submarine flotilla.
The role
As an Engineering Technician you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll join a team working on one of the most complex support arrangements in operation in the UK today. You will manage this by ensuring that you know what is fitted to every Royal Navy submarine, where it is fitted, who supplies it and how it is fitted.
Day to day, you’ll provide support and be responsible for design information management. Your key responsibilities will include:
1. Maintaining the configuration data and datum pack records for all items as fitted to Royal Navy submarines iaw a Configuration Management Plan
2. Maintaining a record of the status of extant submarine Technical Documentation to ensure Quality Assurance is achieved and maintained.
3. Ensuring all Design Change Management documentation is managed and maintained correctly within the Submarine Definition Database (SDD)
4. Working as part of a team as a subject matter expert across Babcock, the Royal Navy, MoD and industry partners
Essential experience of the Engineering Technician
5. Experience in using engineering documentation (such as drawings and technical records)
6. Understanding of change management and the control of project and engineering documentation.
7. Ability to work independently, challenge the status quo and make judgments based on incomplete information is essential.
8. Strong communication skills and ability to converse at all levels.
This role is full time, working a 35-hour week. We offer flexible hybrid working however you will be required to work in a Babcock office at least 2 days per week.
Qualifications for the Engineering Technician
9. ONC/BTEC level 3 qualifications in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics discipline however we will consider applicants that can demonstrate relevant vocational experience if this isn’t held
10. Hold, or be willing to proactively work towards, professional recognition as an Engineering Technician with an appropriate Engineering Institution.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role and be a sole UK National.
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
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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
19. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing