Job Title: Piping Designer
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74243
Shape the future of engineering in a role that really matters.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Piping Designer at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Rosyth, Fife.
The role
As a Piping Designer, you’ll play a vital role in delivering complex engineering solutions that support critical defence infrastructure. Working as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, you’ll create and develop detailed piping designs that contribute to the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of major projects.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-impact programmes, helping to maintain and modernise essential systems while building your own technical expertise and career in defence, aerospace, and engineering.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Producing detailed piping layouts and 3D models using industry-standard design software
- Developing and reviewing technical drawings, ensuring compliance with design standards and specifications
- Collaborating with engineers and project teams to deliver integrated, high-quality design solutions
- Supporting design reviews and resolving technical queries throughout the project lifecycle
- You will be maintaining accurate documentation and ensuring all work meets safety, quality, and regulatory standards.
This is a full-time role at 37 hours per week based at Rosyth, Fife. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Piping Designer:
- Demonstrating experience in piping design within an engineering or industrial environment
- Using 2D and 3D CAD tools such as AutoCAD or similar design software
- Interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, and technical standards
- Working effectively within multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex projects
- Applying a strong understanding of design processes, safety, and quality requirements.
Qualifications for the Piping Designer:
- HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline
- A degree in Engineering (or working towards) would be advantageous.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain BPSS 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: 24/06/2026
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