Senior Naval Architect
6 days ago
Helensburgh
Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL Hybrid Senior Naval Architect Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements £48,000 - £58,000 + Benefits Full time / Permanent SF72738 Shape the future of submarine engineering As a Senior Naval Architect, you'll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll take on technically complex, non-routine engineering work that sits at the heart of the UK’s submarine enterprise. This is a role with real influence ensuring vessels meet stringent safety, regulatory, and classification standards, while supporting operational excellence across critical defence programmes. • Delivering survey activity and close-out in line with contract requirements and performance measures, • Providing technical assurance through auditing, review, and approval of surveys across Babcock, subcontractors, and suppliers, • Ensuring compliance with defence, regulatory, and classification standards, • Supporting the Principal Naval Architect with technical leadership and mentoring of junior colleagues, • Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to maintain quality, safety, and operational excellence Please note that this position involves working in confined spaces. Candidates must be able to work comfortably and perform tasks in restricted spaces. This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday, 07:15 - 16:45 and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 1 days working from home. • Working knowledge of relevant defence, British, and classification society standards and regulatory frameworks, • Experience with nuclear submarines, understanding structural integrity, systems, and operational requirements, • Knowledge of Ministry of Defence organisations and survey documentation processes, • Application of safe systems of work, including COSHH and risk assessments, • Experience in quality assurance and compliance environments, • Chartered Engineer status as a Naval Architect or Maritime Constructive Engineer, or equivalent demonstrable submarine structural experience, • Hull Inspection, Damage and Repair training, • Painting Inspector Level 1 - ICorr would be advantageous 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). • 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 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 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 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: 02/07/2026 Nuclear Engineering, Developer, Quality Assurance, Engineer, Architecture, Engineering, Technology #J-18808-Ljbffr
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