Principal EC&I Engineer reference: 1212890001

Job Title: Principal EC&I Engineer Location: Rosyth, Plymouth, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements Compensation: Up to £69,555 + BenefitsRole Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF63671

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 Electrical Controls and Instrumentation (EC&I) Engineer at one of our sites at Rosyth, Bristol, or Plymouth.

The role

As a Principal EC&I Engineer, you’ll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll play a key role in a growing multi-disciplinary team within the Electrical Engineering Group (EEG). You’ll work alongside a supportive network of electrical and electronic engineers, sharing best practices and developing professionally. Your main responsibilities will include delivering electrical and electronic aspects of marine system design, ensuring compliance with legislation, and managing system integration across electrical, electronic, combat, and automation systems—defining interfaces across disciplines effectively.

Ensure that the technical requirements produced at product and sub-system levels meet the customers’ requirements and are able to verified and validated successfully. Developing Electrical/Electronic engineering design solutions for a variety of different platforms across the full Engineering Lifecycle. This will include substantiating the integrity and performance of new system designs within their operating environments. Provide electrical & electronic design support by preparing and checking design documentation, reviews, estimates and schedules, also, in support of tender responses requiring design input. Supervising, planning and controlling work to time, cost and quality. Technical Authority for complex multi discipline tasks and projects. You will produce, review, and approve calculations, analyses, drawings, models, design basis documentation and technical reports, in accordance with project requirements.

This role is full time 37 hours and will be based at one of our locations: Rosyth, Bristol, or Plymouth. The role offers hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Principal EC&I Engineer

High level of developed knowledge as the role is directly accountable for design development and determining solutions to problems and issues within the specialist subject area. The ideal candidate will be a proven Principal Electrical/Electronic Design Engineer or Senior Engineer ready to take the next step with significant experience in overseeing projects and skilled in supporting and developing less experienced team members. Experience working on UK naval marine shipbuilding projects or defence related design experience, but this is not essential. Electrical & Electronics experience in other industries would be considered including facilities, Oil & Gas and Aviation Experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment Proven experience of relevant industry standards Experience of all phases of the engineering lifecycle and configuration control systems

Qualifications for the Principal EC&I Engineer

Qualified to degree level, or HNC/HND equivalent, coupled with significant experience in the relevant engineering discipline. Ideally, you will be a member of a relevant institution (e.g. RINA, IET, IMechE, IMarEst etc.) and hold or working towards Chartered or Incorporated status or you will have significant demonstrable engineering experience and capable of registration with the Engineering Council at CEng level.

Security ClearanceThe 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 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 Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually ‘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: 03/07/2025