Senior engineer Work, Jobs in Buckfastleigh, Dev (with Salaries)

Chief Engineer
Babcock International —Plymouth
- From £75,100 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Annual leave
Senior Equipment Engineer
Plessey Semiconductors —Plymouth
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Maintenance
- Gym membership
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Senior IT Support Engineer
Pell Frischmann —Exeter
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Software troubleshooting
- Computer networking
- SharePoint
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
South Devon College —Paignton
- £30,770 - £35,338 a year
- Full-time
- Azure
- Computer networking
- IT
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
14d
Senior Equipment Engineer
Plessey —Plymouth
- Full-time
- Schematics
- Analysis skills
- Continuous improvement
- Gym membership
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13d
Systems Operations Team Lead
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust —Plymouth
- £49,387 - £56,515 a year
- Full-time
- In-person
- Leadership
4d
Civil Engineer - Mid to Senior Level
Moffatt & Nichol —Exeter
- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Engineering
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Senior Structural Engineer
Line and Groove —Exeter
- £38,000 - £48,000 a year
- Full-time
- AutoCAD
- Civil engineering
- Engineering
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Project Engineer (Mechanical)
Tilbury Douglas —Exeter
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Vulnerability Management Engineer
Met Office —Exeter
- £35,145 - £49,448 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
7d
Senior Structural Engineer
Ridge & Partners LLP —Plymouth
- Full-time
- AutoCAD
- English
- Master's degree
Principal or Senior Electrical Engineer Exeter
SDS Engineering —Exeter
- Hybrid work
- AutoCAD
- Engineering
- English
- Flexible schedule
Research Data Scientist
University of Exeter —Exeter
- £43,482 - £46,049 a year
- Hybrid work
- Doctoral degree
- Data analysis skills
- Research
- Relocation assistance
- Annual leave
7d
Senior Optical Systems Engineer
Gooch & Housego Torquay —Torquay
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- Engineering
- Project management
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Software Team Manager
Keysight Technologies, Inc. —Paignton
- Part-time
- Remote
- Analysis skills
- C++
- Project management
Civil Engineer - Water
Stantec —Exeter
- Civil engineering
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Paid training
7d
Senior Civil Engineer - Dams & Reservoirs
AECOM —Exeter
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Civil engineering
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
6d
Senior Surveyor
Lloyd's Register Group —Plymouth
- Full-time
- English
- Project management
Health, Safety and Fire Practitioner
Ministry of Justice —Newton Abbot
- £30,001 - £40,000 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
10d
Operations Manager
Liberty —Exeter
- Overtime
- Customer service
- Supervising experience
- Team management
- Annual leave
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Chief Engineer

Babcock International -
Plymouth

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Permanent | Full-time
From £75,100 a year

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension

Qualifications

Stakeholder liaison
Engineering
Systems engineering

Full job description

Location:
Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ

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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Chief Engineer

Location: Flexible UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: From £75,100 Dependant on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72524

Bring Your Commercial Skills to Projects That Help Create a Safer World.

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 Chief Engineer based at our Plymouth, Devon or Bristol sites.

The role:
As a Chief Engineer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll provide strategic and technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams working at the forefront of defence, Land, and engineering innovation. This is your opportunity to influence some of the UK’s most critical vehicle capability programmes — ensuring they are safe, reliable, resilient, and built to the highest technical standards.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams delivering complex land vehicle programmes Oversee system architecture development, design solutions, integration strategies, and verification and validation activities.
Act as the primary technical interface with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
Represent engineering at technical reviews, governance boards, and programme milestones.
Ensure technical integrity, safety, and performance across all protected mobility vehicle systems.

This is a full time role, working 37 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available with 2 days onsite per week based in Plymouth, Devon or Bristol.

Essential experience of the Chief Engineer :
Proven experience leading complex, multidisciplinary engineering programmes at a senior level.
Strong understanding of land vehicle systems engineering, integration, and lifecycle management.
Deep knowledge of defence standards, safety assurance, and regulatory compliance.
Demonstrable leadership and stakeholder management capability.
Ability to influence technical strategy in a high‑integrity engineering environment.

Qualifications for the Chief Engineer:
HNC/HND or Degree in an Engineering discipline.
Chartered Engineer status or working towards it (Desirable).
Additional systems engineering, safety engineering or defence-accredited qualifications (Desirable).

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:
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 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

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: 04/08/2026

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