*depending on location, role and qualifications
We ensure our clients’ systems remain reliable, work well when their partner systems change and run effectively without any problems. Over two to four years, you could get involved in everything from decommissioning and waste management through to plant operations, safeguards and land characterisation.
When you’re anticipating what might happen as a system develops, you need to look at the big picture and zoom in on the tiny details. And when you’re dealing with complex systems such as submarines or nuclear instrumentation, that’s quite an undertaking. You’ll work alongside experienced design, software, mechanical and electrical engineering teams as well as with physicists and managers, applying your systems thinking and understanding of the interaction and interfaces between electrical, mechanical, nuclear processes and structural engineering systems. You’ll develop critical instruments from initial requirements through to design, testing and commissioning. Along the way, you may help specify the test and commissioning processes for new and modified designs to support the Navy’s most critical ships and submarines.
We will provide you with a supportive and engaging environment where you can grow your career.
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It’s hard to beat the variety of fantastic opportunities and business experiences you’ll receive during this development programme. You can expect real world encounters and exposure to exciting projects that will really help you navigate where you want to take your career.
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See the list below to find out more about the areas of our business that are offering places on our Systems Engineering programme for Autumn 2023. But no matter which team you join, you could be based anywhere in the UK. That’s why we ask all our graduates to be flexible and willing to move during their programme.
You’ll be based in our radiometric instrument laboratories at Sellafield in Cumbria for the four years of your programme. In that time, you’ll design, implement, test, and maintain instrumentation software and supporting applications that measures all types of radiation for our clients’ sites around the world. This will provide experience of the full development lifecycle within a small team and develop an understanding of how this part of our business contributes to our success.
Our Marine – Defence business, based in Bristol, forms a critical part of Babcock’s Marine organisation. Working across a range of exciting design, manufacture and support projects, our 1,500 strong team operate from a number of sites across the UK and internationally ensuring our global customer portfolio is always supported.
Your home base will be Bristol, but some of your placements may be at other Marine sector locations.
At the heart of our Marine sector is our 320 acre Rosyth facility, which is home to one of the largest waterside manufacturing and repair facilities in the UK. At Rosyth we specialise in the design and engineering of complex marine platforms, we support clients with design at whole ship or module level and we bring energy to our customers projects with our integrated design and manufacturing approach. We work together to ensure navies at home and across the world go to sea safely and are the lead contractor for the UK Submarine Dismantling Programme.
Digital transformation is at the heart of the site’s growth. This is not just a vision for the future but it is now a reality through the Type 31 Frigate programme where further investment in facilities and manufacturing equipment will support the integration of technology and new working practices to create a dynamic, effective and efficient, digitally enabled facility.
To make the most of the opportunities Marine has to offer, you’ll need to have great technical skills along with the drive and aspiration to develop your career to help us deliver our world-class programmes, develop new technologies and offer solutions for our vast range of customers.
Rosyth also hosts our commercial gas handling sector of the business – world leaders in the delivery of customer focused solutions for the transportation and storage of liquefied gas in the marine environment.
Your home base will be our Rosyth facility, however, some of your placements may be at other Marine sector locations, therefore you will need to be ready and willing to move to other sites throughout your programme.
Our business in Plymouth supports the UK Royal Navy in Devonport and around the world, delivering complex ship and submarine sustainment programmes and sustaining critical and complex assets to help maintain national security.
Depending on your programme, your home base could be Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth. However, some of your placements may be at other Nuclear sector locations.
Check out some of our other, related programmes. Whatever graduate programme you choose, you’ll get the chance to make a real impact.
