Senior Strategic Systems Engineer

Senior Strategic Systems Engineer
Location: Bristol or Devonport
Competitive Salary
Reference: SF33949

SUPPORTING THE CURRENT AND NEXT GENERATION OF SUBMARINE - ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE?

Babcock International, the major engineering support services company, is currently looking for a Senior Engineer for Submarine Strategic Weapon (Support) Systems (SWS/SWSS) with appropriate qualifications and experience to be based at or near Bristol.

Overall Department Direction

Babcock Naval Marine - Submarine Support Engineering (SSE) business unit provides engineering management services to enable the delivery of the company's key contracted outputs to the MoD, essentially to deliver available and capable platforms for the Royal Navy.
Maritime Mission Systems contains both Strategic and Combat Systems Engineers who provide an engineering support and management service to the MoD in addition to providing organic engineering management to Babcock Marine's waterfront teams.

Main Purpose of Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced engineer, to support Babcock's contribution to the Submarine Strategic Weapon Enterprise (SWE). Key elements of the post are:

* To support the Babcock Strategic Systems Engineering Team within SSE.
* To support contracted tasking from Dreadnought Supply & Support Team (DSST) outputs.
* To represent and increase Babcock's strategic system engineering capability within the SWE.
* To maintain a unified and coherent approach to strategic systems engineering support across Babcock business units.
* To work effectively with other UK SW system industry partners within the Strategic Weapons Enterprise.
* To act as a Babcock subject matter expert for the SWS/SWSS systems and equipment, providing advice and facilitating information exchanges as required to support business outputs.

What do I need to do the role?

You will need to be educated to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant Engineering discipline, possess membership or be applying for membership of a profession engineering body (IET, IMechE) and be a Suitably Qualified and Experienced Person (SQEP) in Submarine SWS/SWSS programme, policies, procedures, technologies, equipment, support, and operations.

We would also like you to have:
* Recent experience of working with MoD/Royal Navy or Defence Industry
* Well-developed interpersonal skills

What else do I need to know?
* This role is on a full-time permanent basis
* Competitive Salary and Benefits
* You must be a sole UK national and ideally hold current/active or be eligible/capable of achieving 'Security Check' (SC). Candidates who do not meet the above criteria will not be considered for this post.

About Babcock International
For more than a century, Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence Company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services. We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure and specialist training.
Babcock offers a supportive environment including: enhanced employment terms and conditions, money purchase pension scheme with life assurance, share ownership scheme, Occupational Health services, flexible working hours (only non-industrials), career opportunities and specialist advice and guidance from our Learning & Development teams. Additional benefits may also apply for Management posts.

Application Guidance
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to ensure that our recruitment processes are regularly reviewed and adapted, as required, to ensure we're compliant with the latest government advice. We are striving to protect both our current and future employees by acting in a responsible way which reflects the restrictions we face.
Babcock are continuing with essential recruitment activity but implementing relevant recommendations to ensure that this is done in a responsible way with consideration of the unprecedented circumstances we are facing.
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Armed Forces Covenant
We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. We recognise the value that Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reserves, Veterans, Uniformed Cadet Instructors and Service Families contribute to our business and the United Kingdom. As part of the Covenant, Babcock offers Reservists and Uniformed Cadet Instructors up to 2 week's special paid leave to help them meet their commitments. To find out more please visit our website.

Closing Date: 31/07/2021