Job Title: Principal Engineer - Equipment Governance
Location: UK, Flexible
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57012
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 Principal Engineer.
The role
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working collaboratively with MoD Defence Equipment and Support teams, these roles will drive the Configuration Management Committees which provide awareness of configuration change across all the Army’s platforms and equipment. Having the awareness will help the Business to prepare for change and provide efficiencies in our management of spares, engineering material and technical information by being prepared for the change once it is implemented.
Day-to-day, responsible for leading Configuration Management across the Protected Mobility and Logistic platform fleet and equipment and provide oversight to the Defence Support Group (DSG) Chief Engineer on the Legislative and Regulatory compliance of the platforms and equipment delivered by DSG.
- Chair the quarterly Protected Mobility and Logistic (PML) platform customer Configuration Management Committee (CMC)
- Manage the coordinate the quarterly PML customer CMC
- Ensure the information gleaned from the customer PML CMCs is translated into actions and communicated to internal stakeholders with appropriate action tracker
- Hold internal PML CMCs to track actions prior to next customer PML CMC
- Communicate to the Engineering team any opportunities that can be realised through the introduction of improved processes and techniques from the PML CMCs
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and can be based on site at Andover, Bristol, Bovington, Donnington or Warminster.
Essential experience of the Principal Engineer:
- Charted Engineer or close to be recognised as CEng
- Member of a professional Engineering Body
- Awareness of Land military vehicle and equipment
- Awareness of Quality Management Systems
- Awareness in the use of Engineering drawing packages
- Competent PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)
Qualifications for the Principal Engineer:
- Engineering degree or equivalent
- Certified Engineer
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 (www.gov.uk)
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘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
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 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: 29/04/2024
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