Control and Automation Engineer

Control and Automation Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Control and Automation Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43,935 - £58,105 dependent upon experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61186

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 Senior EC&I Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Control and Automation Engineer, you’ll be key in providing professional technical assistance and advice to support ongoing operational availability and maintenance at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Day to day, you’ll be supporting the development of new designs and facility modifications. This will involve a variety of engineering equipment within the facility with an emphasis on mechanical / fuel handling assets:

• Maintaining the content and configuration of the reference design documentation of extant assets through-life.
• Management of the design development through the whole design lifecycle (requirements development, drawings, calculations, specifications and reports) for both new and modified equipment.
• Specifying replacement equipment/components and supporting the production of configuration documentation for permanent modifications.
• Supporting the implementation of new designs (factory acceptance testing, supporting commissioning activities).
• Supporting asset conditions surveys and producing condition reports / fault-finding on existing assets.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Control and Automation Engineer:

• Producing a range of engineering documentation; reports, specifications, calculations.
• Experience of cranes/lifting equipment and crane operations or knowledge and experience of other electro-mechanical/hydraulic systems (desirable).

Qualifications for the Control and Automation Engineer:

• Qualified to degree level in an electrical engineering discipline.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

What we offer

• 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 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.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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.