Engineering Technician

As an Engineering Technician, 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. You will manage this 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 and be responsible for design information management for all of in service Royal Navy Submarines.

• Maintain the configuration data, document and drawings for all items as fitted to Royal Navy submarines in accordance with a configuration management plan


• Maintain a record of the status of extant submarine technical documentation to ensure quality assurance is achieved and maintained.


• Ensure all design change management documentation is managed and maintained correctly within the Submarine Definition Database (SDD)


• Work as part of a team as a subject matter expert across Babcock, the Royal Navy, 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.


• Experienced Engineering Technician from a highly regulated industry


• 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, ONC/BTEC level 3 qualifications 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 Engineering Technician 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


• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.


• Potential to develop skills.


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