Compensation: £33,900 to £42,400
Role ID: SF76930
At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Compliance Engineer at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
This is an opportunity to take a leading role in the management and compliance of critical engineering assets that support national defence and operational capability. Working within the Non-Nuclear Plant Management team, you'll help ensure assets remain safe, compliant and fit for purpose, providing the insight and governance that enable informed investment decisions and long-term asset planning. If you're passionate about engineering compliance, asset management and making a meaningful impact, this role offers a rewarding and highly visible career path in one of the UK's most important engineering environments
As a Senior Compliance Engineer, you'll lead the Compliance Engineering function within the Non-Nuclear Plant Management team, driving asset compliance, asset health monitoring, risk management and management reporting activities. Your expertise will play a vital role in supporting the safe and effective operation of site assets while influencing future asset investment, lifecycle planning and governance decisions across the business.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
This is a full-time, onsite role, 35 hours per week.
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).
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 10/11/2026
Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.
There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.
Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer
