Babcock International Group

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Babcock International Group

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Lancaster • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Drive end‑to‑end design output, producing schemes, detailed drawings, assemblies, specifications, technical studies, and design justification reports.
  • Identify and respond to task variations through formal change control.
  • Deliver multi‑discipline work packages to programme, budget, and quality standards.
  • Support ponds and flasks operations as part of defueling readiness.

Requirements

  • Experience producing mechanical design deliverables for mechanical handling equipment, special‑purpose machinery or lifting equipment, ideally in a high‑hazard environment.
  • Demonstrated design leadership and the ability to manage multi‑discipline teams.
  • Experience delivering engineering work packages to time, cost, and quality.
  • Strong understanding of change control within engineering design processes.
  • Experience working within safety‑critical or regulated engineering environments.
  • Degree‑qualified or equivalent (NVQ Level 3 or HNC).
  • Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) security clearance for this role.
Benefits
  • 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 Cavendish 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
  • Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
mechanical designdesign deliverablesmechanical handling equipmentspecial-purpose machinerylifting equipmentchange controlengineering work packagesdesign justification reportstechnical studiesdetailed drawings
Soft Skills
design leadershipteam managementcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skills
Certifications
DegreeNVQ Level 3HNCCounter Terrorist Check (CTC)