Chief Engineer

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

6/25/2025

Job Title: Chief Engineer

Location: Devonport, Clyde or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £80,000 - £100,000 Dependent upon experience + Bonus, Family Healthcare and Car Allowance

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 65064

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 Chief Engineer at either our Devonport, Clyde or Bristol sites.

The role

As a Chief Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll utilise your expertise to provide strategic engineering leadership across the Nuclear Sector within your defined Authority, ensuring integrated, efficient solutions and end-to-end support throughout the full engineering lifecycle.

Day to day, you’ll drive engineering leadership across the Nuclear Sector, championing excellence and integrity in delivery teams while cultivating transparent collaboration across the wider sector and global business.

• Lead the local execution of the Independent Technical Authority (ITA) responsibilities, aligned with Group and Sector Engineering Manuals
• Ensure engineering delivery within your remit complies with all relevant Group and Sector policies, practices, and procedures.
• Assure the technical integrity and quality of all engineering outputs within your scope of accountability.
• Oversee and validate the Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP), capacity, and capability across the Sector Engineering Function
• Provide expert guidance and share lessons learned from the wider business.
  
  
  

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in office/onsite and will be based at either Devonport, Bristol or Clyde. There is a requirement to be flexible to travel and work across a range of Babcock sites as the business needs .

Essential Experience Of The Chief Engineer

• Extensive inclusive leadership experience in the Nuclear or other safety-critical industries.
• Proven track record of engineering leadership and stakeholder management, preferably with nuclear sector exposure.
• Skilled in managing engineering across multiple lifecycle phases in high-hazard environments.
• Strong executive-level communication, stakeholder engagement and inter-personal skills.
• Inquisitive, open-minded, and pragmatic approach to leadership and problem-solving.
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Chief Engineer

• Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or a related field.
• Member of a recognised professional engineering institution.
• Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent professional standing).
  
  
  

Security Clearance

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) .

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’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: 16/07/2025

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