Job Title: Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £44,600 – £55,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74417
Overview
Lead complex engineering solutions that support the UK’s defence and national infrastructure. As a Senior Mechanical Handling Engineer you will play a key technical leadership role in large infrastructure and engineering programmes at the Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of mechanical handling, dockside infrastructure and multidisciplinary engineering work packages from concept to handover.
- Manage technical requirements, review engineering calculations, drawings, specifications and design documentation to ensure high-quality project delivery.
- Design and integrate crane protection systems, mechanical handling equipment, access control solutions and infrastructure improvements.
- Coordinate with construction, civil, mechanical, electrical and control systems stakeholders to manage complex engineering interfaces.
- Mentor engineers and designers while driving safety, quality, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement across projects.
This is a full‑time, 35‑hour week position based at the Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential Experience
- Experience leading complex engineering projects involving cranes, mechanical handling systems or mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
- Experience managing crane safety, lifting equipment, protection systems and mechanical handling solutions within regulated environments.
- Experience delivering multidisciplinary design projects and managing interfaces across mechanical, electrical, controls and civil engineering disciplines.
- Experience working within highly regulated sectors such as defence, nuclear, marine, heavy engineering or critical infrastructure.
- Experience overseeing design assurance, technical reviews, safety management and engineering governance throughout the project lifecycle.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status – desirable.
- Membership of a relevant professional institution – desirable.
- Significant engineering experience with the capability to achieve Engineering Council registration at Chartered Engineer level – desirable.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national capable of achieving and maintaining Security Check (SC) security clearance. Eligibility may be affected by place of birth, nationality, citizenship or residency.
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Digital GP access, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of professional fees
- Reservists receive 10 days special paid leave
- Holiday trading: ability to buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
- Be Kind Day: one working day paid leave annually for volunteering
- Excellent development opportunities and employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
We are a disability‑confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need reasonable adjustments during application, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.
Closing Date
22/07/2026
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