Maintenance Support Engineer

We Served; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense engineering company is seeking a Maintenance Support Engineer to join their team in Plymouth. You will support the UK’s submarine programme by ensuring the maintenance and repair of critical infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a Level 3 engineering qualification and experience in operations, maintenance, and project management. This full-time role offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for career advancement and a comprehensive benefits package including generous holiday allowance and pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience within the engineering industry; operations and maintenance experience desirable.
• Knowledge of dockside services and facilities.
• Skilled in project management tools and their application across the lifecycle.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio).

Responsibilities

• Coordinate readiness activities for planned and corrective maintenance.
• Work with Planning Engineers to schedule and enable maintenance activities.
• Support reactive, unplanned maintenance and lead required actions.
• Arrange readiness for asset movement across the nuclear site.
• Produce technical documentation and act as a Technical Representative for Nuclear Facilities.

Skills

Project management tools

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio)

Operations and maintenance experience

Knowledge of dockside services

Education

Level 3 qualification in an engineering discipline or equivalent technical experience

APM Project Fundamentals

IOSH Managing Safely

H&S Management of Sub-Contractors

Job description

Job Title: Maintenance Support Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £38,084.00 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the Future of Defence Engineering

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 Maintenance Support Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Maintenance Support Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our Nuclear Facilities team, supporting the UK’s submarine programme. This is a role where your expertise ensures the safe and efficient delivery of maintenance, upgrades and repairs to critical infrastructure. Your work will directly contribute to national security and help shape a future that lasts, while advancing your own career in a dynamic and highly specialised environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Coordinate readiness activities for planned and corrective maintenance.
• Work with Planning Engineers to schedule and enable maintenance activities.
• Support reactive, unplanned maintenance and lead required actions.
• Arrange readiness for asset movement across the nuclear site.
• Produce technical documentation and act as a Technical Representative for Nuclear Facilities.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Maintenance Support Engineer

• Proven experience within the engineering industry; operations and maintenance experience desirable.
• Knowledge of dockside services and facilities.
• Skilled in project management tools and their application across the lifecycle.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio).

Qualifications for the Maintenance Support Engineer

• Mandatory: Minimum Level 3 qualification in an engineering discipline or equivalent technical experience.
• Desirable: APM Project Fundamentals, IOSH Managing Safely, H&S Management of Sub-Contractors.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has 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.

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 [e-mail] 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: 04/01/2026

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