Senior Compliance Engineer

Compensation: £33,900 to £42,400

• 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 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• '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

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 10/11/2026

The successful candidate must be 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).

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Compliance Engineer at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in the management and compliance of critical engineering assets that support national defence and operational capability. Working within the Non-Nuclear Plant Management team, you'll help ensure assets remain safe, compliant and fit for purpose, providing the insight and governance that enable informed investment decisions and long-term asset planning. If you're passionate about engineering compliance, asset management and making a meaningful impact, this role offers a rewarding and highly visible career path in one of the UK's most important engineering environments

The role

As a Senior Compliance Engineer, you'll lead the Compliance Engineering function within the Non-Nuclear Plant Management team, driving asset compliance, asset health monitoring, risk management and management reporting activities. Your expertise will play a vital role in supporting the safe and effective operation of site assets while influencing future asset investment, lifecycle planning and governance decisions across the business.

• Leading compliance engineering activities across non-nuclear site assets.
• Monitoring asset health, compliance performance and associated risks.
• Producing and presenting management information to support business decision-making.
• Maintaining governance arrangements and ensuring compliance obligations are met.
• Supporting asset lifecycle, disposal and investment planning with stakeholders across the organisation.

This is a full-time, onsite role, 35 hours per week.

Job Title: Senior Compliance Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76930