Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer
Location: Bristol, Plymouth, or Walsall + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: From £45,400 negotiable dependant on experience
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61914

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 Product Engineer at our Bristol, Plymouth, or Walsall site.

In Walsall, we convert vehicles to meet a wide variety of requirements, from the production of police vehicles to Military Armoured Cars to serving in volatile environments and protecting against roadside explosions and mine attacks. Whilst in our Southwest facility, we have developed a flexible vehicle assembly line to build vehicles at scale for our UK and overseas partners.

The role
As a Senior Product Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to support Babcock with delivering our purpose of Creating a Safe and Secure World through the conversion of vehicles to meet military and emergency services demanding requirements.

Day-to-day, you'll focus on developing and implementing support strategies, by joining our engineering team to develop an Integrated Product Support (IPS) solution to engineering and build activities.

1. Develop or update maintenance concepts, including preventive and corrective maintenance plans, and produce comprehensive technical documents such as user manuals, installation guides, API documentation, and online help resources.
2. Perform to Availability, Reliability and Maintainability (AR&M) analysis to ensure systems meet performance targets. Conduct Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) to predict system failure points and recommend solutions. Perform Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA) to assess the work required to keep vehicles available, and set the skills and facilities required to undertake them.
3. Work with design engineers, project managers, and logistics teams to integrate support requirements into product development.
4. Ensure compliance with the necessary contractual and legislative requirements.
5. Support the creation and delivery of training programs for operators and maintainers.

This role is full time 37.5 hours per week and requires regular travel to Walsall, Bristol, and Plymouth on a monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Product Engineer

1. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly to non-technical audiences.
2. Experience of vehicle quality, vehicle maintenance processes and legislative requirements.
3. Understanding of the customer context and requirements with regards to vehicle support, assurance, evaluation, and improvement.
4. Competent PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP & Document management systems).
5. Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings including Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is advantageous.

Qualifications for the Senior Product Engineer
We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we offer

1. Generous holiday allowance
2. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
3. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
4. Employee share scheme
5. Employee shopping savings portal
6. Payment of Professional Fees
7. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
8. 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
9. '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
10. 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 [e-mail] 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: 25/04/2025

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