Compensation: £39,000 - £48,800 + Benefits
Role ID: SF76882
Help Keep the Royal Navy Fleet Ready for the Future
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer at Babcock Technology Centre, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.
As a Submarine Maintenance Planning Engineer, you'll play a vital role in supporting through-life maintenance management and optimisation for the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. Working within a technically complex and fast-paced environment, you'll help ensure submarines remain safe, capable and available when they're needed most.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence critical defence programmes while working alongside engineering specialists across Babcock, the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence and industry partners. You'll contribute to solving complex engineering challenges, driving continuous improvement and developing specialist expertise within one of the UK's most important defence sectors.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week onsite at Babcock Technology Centre in Bristol. Additional days required during peak workload periods.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role. Must be sole UK national.
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: 06/11/2026
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
