About this role
Digital Engineering Specialist Opportunities
Job Title: Digital Engineering Specialist
Vacancies: Multiple opportunities available
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66459
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 Digital Engineering Specialist at historic Devonport Royal Dockyard – home of the biggest naval base in Western Europe and a vital support for the Royal Navy for over 700 years.
At Babcock we have a true culture of opportunity – with business contracts that last decades and structured career development pathways that can take you in all kinds of directions; you will grow, develop, and achieve more than you ever thought possible. There has never been a better time for you to join Babcock Marine.
Digital Engineering Specialist Opportunities
As a Digital Engineering Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We have opportunities for Digital Engineering Specialists to work on a wide range of Digital Engineering projects. You’ll be at the forefront of delivering structured digital information that supports the design, maintenance, and development of critical infrastructure for the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet. This is your chance to contribute to national defence while advancing your career in a dynamic and future-focused environment.
What you’ll do:
- Creating and managing digital models using Revit and other BIM tools.
- Supporting model federation, clash detection, and 4D/5D simulations using Navisworks, Solibri, and Synchro.
- Applying Uniclass classifications and COBie data to meet project information requirements.
- Collaborating with engineering, design, and project teams to ensure digital outputs support coordination and delivery.
- Contributing to BIM Execution Plans, MIDPs, TIDPs, and digital delivery strategies.
What you’ll need:
- A degree in engineering, construction, or a scientific discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with the UK BIM Framework, ISO 19650, COBie, and Uniclass.
- Strong knowledge of BIM authoring platforms such as Revit.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience in nuclear, defence, or similarly regulated sectors (desirable).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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
- 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 [email protected] 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: 11/02/2026
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Other facts
About Babcock
Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.
There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.
Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer
What you'll do
- As a Digital Engineering Specialist, you will create and manage digital models and support various digital engineering projects for the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. You will collaborate with engineering and design teams to ensure digital outputs meet project requirements.
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