Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer

Compensation: £39,000 - £48,800 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76882

• 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
• A dynamic working environment

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.

Help Keep the Royal Navy Fleet Ready for the Future

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer at Babcock Technology Centre, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.

The role

As a Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer, you'll play a vital role in supporting through-life maintenance management and optimisation for the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. Working within a technically complex and fast-paced environment, you'll help ensure submarines remain safe, capable and available when they're needed most.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence critical defence programmes while working alongside engineering specialists across Babcock, the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence and industry partners. You'll contribute to solving complex engineering challenges, driving continuous improvement and developing specialist expertise within one of the UK's most important defence sectors.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Support maintenance planning and optimisation activities across submarine programmes
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts, the Royal Navy, Ministry of Defence and industry partners to deliver engineering solutions
• Manage maintenance requirements and helping balance operational priorities against programme demands
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and driving enhancements to maintenance processes
• Contribute to the delivery of safe, effective and available submarine capability for the UK defence community

Job Title: Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week onsite at Babcock Technology Centre in Bristol. Additional days required during peak workload periods.

Qualifications for the Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role. Must be sole UK national.

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).