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Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer
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Plessey —Plymouth
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- Master's degree
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Plessey —Plymouth
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
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Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer

Babcock International -
Plymouth

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£44,600 - £55,800 a year
14 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical knowledge

Full job description

Location:
Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

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Job Title: Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74464

Help shape the future of nuclear engineering and national security

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 Mechanical Handling Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to join the Submarine Defuel Delivery Project (SDDP), a major programme supporting critical national infrastructure. Working as part of a highly skilled engineering team, you'll contribute to the design, development and implementation of specialist mechanical handling and defuel tooling systems that support the safe defueling of submarines. Your expertise will help deliver complex engineering solutions that make a real difference, while offering excellent opportunities for career development within one of the UK's leading defence, aerospace and engineering organisations.

Day-to-day, you’ll support the delivery of innovative engineering solutions within a technically challenging and rewarding environment. Working closely with the Design Manager and wider project teams, you'll be responsible for delivering mechanical handling and lifting equipment design activities, ensuring solutions meet the highest standards of safety, quality and performance.

Deliver mechanical handling and defuel tooling engineering activities to agreed scope, schedule, cost and quality requirements.
Update technical documentation and design records from detailed design through to as-built status.
Ensure compliance with quality management processes, engineering standards and Babcock's Business Management System.
Support configuration management, quality control activities and the maintenance of accurate project documentation.
Promote safe working practices by identifying hazards, supporting risk assessments and communicating engineering risks effectively.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer

Experience designing mechanical handling systems and lifting equipment, ideally within highly regulated industries such as nuclear, defence or energy.
Experience producing and supporting engineering design justifications.
Demonstrable experience in technical design development and engineering problem-solving.
Strong understanding of engineering design principles, safety requirements and quality standards.
Working knowledge of relevant engineering software and computer-based engineering applications.

Qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer

Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
Working towards Chartered Engineer status - Desirable
Membership of an appropriate professional engineering institution - Desirable

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 (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

Generous holiday allowance
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.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.

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 [email protected] 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.

Closing date: 20/07/2026

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