Senior Process Engineer

Babcock Canada Inc.; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Senior Process Engineer at their Devonport site. This role involves leading process design work, ensuring compliance with nuclear regulations, and mentoring a small team. Ideal candidates will have strong mechanical engineering skills and relevant qualifications. The position offers competitive benefits and a hybrid working model, requiring a minimum of 3 days onsite. Commitment to national security clearance is essential.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering time

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of mechanical engineering principles for pressure and pipework systems.
• Knowledge of the design lifecycle and project specification processes.
• Experience in planning, budgeting, and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of designs through all lifecycle phases.
• Manage and mentor a small team of engineers.
• Conduct engineering analyses, including structural and fluid flow simulations.

Skills

Mechanical engineering principles

Pressure systems

Project specification processes

Fluid flow analysis

CAD

Education

HND/FdSc/FdEng or equivalent

Professional registration with an engineering institution

Job description

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Senior Process Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid:

Job Title: Senior Process Engineer

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70663

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 Senior Process Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Process Engineer, you’ll have a role where your expertise will make a tangible difference to national security while accelerating your career development in a dynamic and highly specialised environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be at the heart of the nation’s defence infrastructure, providing expert engineering guidance and leading critical process design work. Your contribution will safeguard the integrity of nuclear plant and equipment across both Devonport’s Nuclear Licensed Site and the MoD’s Authorised Site.

• Leading the development and delivery of designs through all lifecycle phases
• Managing and mentoring a small team of engineers
• Producing, checking, and approving technical documentation and drawings
• Conducting engineering analyses, including structural and fluid flow simulations
• Ensuring compliance with nuclear site licence conditions, statutory legislation, and design codes

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Senior Process Engineer

• Strong understanding of mechanical engineering principles for pressure and pipework systems
• Knowledge of the design lifecycle and project specification processes
• Experience in planning, budgeting, and technical documentation
• Expertise in one or more areas: pressure systems, CAD, component simulation, fluid flow analysis, or nuclear plant design

Qualifications for the Senior Process Engineer

• Minimum HND/FdSc/FdEng or equivalent in mechanical/process engineering
• Professional registration with an engineering institution

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain 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

• 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.

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