Senior Naval Architect

Job Title: Senior Naval Architect
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £42,245 - £55,870 dependent upon experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56451

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 Senior Naval Architect at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Senior Naval Architect, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary where you'll join a team who are responsible for ensuring the waterfront facilities and assets can meet the operational demands of a modern Navy.
Day to day, you'll be ensuring assets are fit for use, together with assessing if the facilities can meet current demands.

• Providing technical support to the management of floating assets and associated facilities throughout the product lifecycle.
• Providing specifications to support new acquisitions and refits, undertaking inspections and overseeing maintenance, repair and modifications.
• Maintaining records and ensuring assets are certified for use and supporting the development of technical solutions for future.
• Onsite inspections and investigation to ensure tasks and costs are appropriately recorded in accordance with corporate procedures.

This role is full time, 36 hours and will be based at on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Senior Naval Architect:

• Preferable experience of delivering design packages

Qualifications for the Senior Naval Architect:

• A degree qualified in Naval Architect or marine related engineering
• A chartered Engineer or capable of achieving Chartered status within 12 months

Please note that this position is subject to enhanced national security vetting. The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to satisfy Ministry of Defence security requirements (this may include obtaining SC, NNPPI or Developed Vetting (DV) level of security clearances).

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We are 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.

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