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Supportability Engineer

Job details
Posting date: 14 January 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 28 January 2025
Location: Bristol, Bristol, BS16 1EJ
Company: Babcock International Ltd
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: SF61550_1736858233

Summary

Job Title: Supportability Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43,935.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61550

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 Supportability Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role
As a Supportability Engineer, 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 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 at the Waterfront and be responsible for design information management. Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Maintaining the configuration data and datum pack records for all items as fitted to Royal Navy submarines in accordance with a Configuration Management Plan
  • Maintaining a record of the status of extant submarine technical documentation to ensure quality assurance is achieved and maintained.
  • Ensuring all design change management documentation is managed and maintained correctly within the submarine definition database
  • Working as part of a team as a subject matter expert across Babcock, the Royal Navy, Ministry of Defence (MoD) and industry partners

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 Supportability Engineer

  • Experience in using engineering documentation (such as drawings and technical records)
  • Understanding of change management and the control of project and engineering documentation
  • Ability to work independently, challenge the status quo and make judgments based on incomplete information is essential
  • Strong communication skills and ability to converse at all levels

Qualifications for the Supportability Engineer

  • HNC/BTEC Level 4 qualified in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics discipline however we will consider applicants that can demonstrate relevant vocational experience if this isn't held
  • Hold, or be willing to proactively work towards, professional recognition as an Incorporated Engineer with an appropriate Engineering Institution

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
  • '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 International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 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: 28/01/2025

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