Job Title: Submarine Repair Specialist
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73670
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 Submarine Repair Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Submarine Repair Specialist, you’ll take on a unique and influential role supporting the development and assurance of facilities used to maintain the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet. Working within the User Acceptance Group, you’ll ensure that facility designs, safety cases and operational processes meet the needs of end users and comply with strict regulatory and engineering standards.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the opportunity to apply your specialist knowledge of submarine maintenance and nuclear facility operations to major infrastructure programmes. Your expertise will directly influence future capability, support critical defence projects while strengthening your career within a highly specialist engineering environment.
- Supporting the delivery of User Acceptance Group activities to ensure facility designs meet operational requirements
- Advising on submarine maintenance and facility design to support engineering, safety and project teams
- Contributing to the development and management of functional requirements for new and existing facilities
- Providing specialist input into submarine upkeep, operations, and future infrastructure developments
- Reviewing design documentation and participating in design reviews to ensure compliance with user needs
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Submarine Repair Specialist
The User Acceptance Group (UAG) are seeking to enhance their small group of submarine experts with new members. The UAG are currently responsible for ensuring that the new infrastructure that is being designed and built to support A Class submarines in Devonport meets the needs of the end user.
To become a member of the team you will need to demonstrate that you have a thorough knowledge of Devonport Dockyard:
Essential
- Extensive experience of facility operations and upkeep
or - Extensive experience of the management and delivery of submarine deep maintenance activities including the interaction with the facilities required to enable all activities.
Desirable:
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- A broad understanding of operating within a Nuclear Licensed site.
Qualifications for the Submarine Repair Specialist
- Engineering degree (desirable)
- Equivalent qualifications or experience will be considered where relevant expertise is demonstrated
- Chartered Engineer status (desirable)
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
- 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 30/10/2026
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