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Supportability Engineer - Maintenance Task Analysis

Company:
babcockinternational.com
Location:
Devonport, City of Plymouth, PL1 4BQ, United Kingdom
Posted:
October 24, 2025
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Description:

Job Title: Supportability Engineer

Location: Bristol, Plymouth, Barrow in Furness or Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £43,935 - £49,104 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65068

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 Supportability Engineer at our Bristol, Plymouth, Barrow in Furness or Leicester site.

The role

As a Supportability Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working within Babcock Submarine Support Engineering supporting the function with analysis of design and in service technical information, providing reports and deliverables in support of contractual obligations.

Day-to-day, you’ll you will assist the function in the development of maintenance task information, this will include working with technical design data to populate work books, maintain reports and support the production of Maintenance Task Instructions.

Creating and maintaining technical reports to support process

Escalation and recording of Risks to ensure mitigating actions are captured in the ILS Risk Register

Producing input data to enable the production of MTI Outputs – Maintenance Task Instructions

Supporting actions in the development of preventive and corrective maintenance of Submarine equipment

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Supportability Engineer:

Ex Submarine or Surface Fleet –Engineering Experience

Experience/Knowledge of Maintenance Tasks

Good Stakeholder and Communications skills

Qualifications for the Supportability Engineer:

Level 3 engineering qualification

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

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 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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