About The Role
As a Mechanical Engineer at Babcock, you'll apply your technical expertise to support the sustainment and refurbishment of the Collins-class submarine fleet. You'll play a key role in delivering practical, high-quality engineering solutions, helping resolve complex design and configuration challenges while ensuring technical outcomes are achieved safely, on time, and within budget.
Responsibilities
You will be involved across the full engineering lifecycle—from technical investigations and configuration control to set‐to‐work, testing, and trials. Your work will also include contributing to the development and maintenance of accurate technical documentation, ensuring critical knowledge is captured and sustained. Your contributions directly impact the performance, reliability, and safety of one of Australia's most critical defence capabilities.
About You
You are a detail‐oriented Mechanical Engineer who enjoys solving real‐world problems and applying your technical knowledge in a complex, high‐stakes environment like the Collins‐class submarine program. You bring a solid understanding of design, analysis, manufacturing, and sustainment practices, and you're confident making sound engineering decisions within your discipline. You value collaboration and continuous improvement, actively sharing knowledge and learning from colleagues, and you stay current with emerging technologies and engineering practices. You are motivated by the opportunity to deliver safe, reliable, and high‐impact solutions that support Australia's sovereign defence capability.
Qualifications
* A good understanding of the design, analysis, manufacturing, and support techniques throughout the engineering product lifecycle.
* Knowledge of engineering reports and technical writing in an engineering environment.
* A satisfactory understanding of Product Safety and Quality Processes.
* Awareness of the principles of technical risk management.
* Awareness of Configuration Management Processes.
* Awareness of the engineering Change Management Process.
* A satisfactory understanding of applicable engineering toolsets (e.g., PLM or MRP systems, design, simulation and analysis software).
What We Offer
* An agile work environment with onsite and remote options, including a laptop and working‐from‐home kit if required, and compressed hours for added flexibility.
* Comprehensive leave entitlements—annual leave, wellbeing leave, volunteer leave, paid parental leave, defence reservist leave and more.
* Supportive career growth environment with access to capability frameworks, self‐led learning modules (LinkedIn Learning) and study leave.
* Access to beRewarded discounts across retail, health, entertainment, travel, plus novated leasing options and corporate share plans.
* Wellbeing support through the Munch, Mind, Move, Money online program, employee assistance program and additional wellbeing leave.
* Recognition through the weRecognise program, acknowledging outstanding work aligned with our principles of kindness, collaboration, curiosity, outcomes, courage and ownership.
Equal Opportunity
We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds and experience. Due to the defence orientation of this role, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain an appropriate level of Commonwealth Personnel Security Clearance, as defined in the AGSVA guidelines. Pre‐employment checks may include reference checks, police check, security check, qualifications and right‐to‐work verification.
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