Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Mechanical Engineer (Permanent)

Victoria BC or Ottawa ON or Halifax NS

Expected Salary: $86,879 to $106,185

In determining the final salary, Babcock will consider a variety of factors including the successful Candidate’s skills and experience and internal equity. The final base salary offer will be at the Company’s sole discretion and be presented as part of a competitive total compensation package.

Underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, asset management, and specialist training, Babcock International works with customers around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the key market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear.

In Canada, Babcock works in the Marine sector, where our teams provide critical and complex support to Canada’s submarine fleet. Our Canadian team is proud to be trusted to deliver key naval in-service support for the Royal Canadian Navy. We also operate in the Aviation sector, where Babcock ensures that the aircrew trainees of our partner nations receive the world’s best flying training.

We deliver vital aerial emergency services and are proud to have been selected by the Government of Manitoba to deliver their wildfire suppression services, as well as key components of their critical air ambulance services.

Whether it is providing technical training instruction, developing training materials or maintaining critical training assets, Babcock is trusted by its customers to deliver world-class training solutions.

Babcock’s Purpose is to create a safe and secure world, together
. Our Principles create the foundation for how we will do this. They keep us on the right course, unify the way we work and guide us towards success. By thinking, connecting, and acting in line with these Principles, we’ll deliver better outcomes for our Culture, Customers and Communities. Collectively at Babcock, our employees embody the Principles that help make us great at what we do:

• Challenge the status quo,
  Be Curious
  , and ask, ‘how might we?’
• Whenever measuring success,
  Think:
  Outcomes and positive impacts.
• Be Kind to ourselves, each other, and our planet.
• Babcock employees Collaborate – we are greater than the sum of our parts,
• Be Courageous – be brave, ambitious, and determined.
• Everyone has a part to play
  - Own and Deliver to be successful.

Babcock is grateful to work on the traditional territories of many Nations across Canada. Babcock respects the special relationship that the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis have with the land and recognizes that we are privileged to use and share this land. Babcock is committed to being a good neighbour, ensuring that we are positively contributing to society’s progress and building meaningful and mutually beneficial relations with Indigenous peoples, businesses, and communities.

We encourage you to explore our Babcock Canada website to learn more about us at

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for the occupational Health & Safety of all direct reports, as assigned.
• Provide leadership, oversight, and management for a team of intermediate and junior engineers, as well as technologists.
• Technically lead multidisciplinary teams to develop the installation design and integration of new and replacement equipment related to platform systems within the Victoria Class Submarines and other Naval platforms.
• Complete, and where necessary oversee, a variety of technical and non-technical activities which may include proposals for new work, feasibility studies, concept/detailed designs, drawings, and calculations.
• Ensure that appropriate engineering assurance, verification and approval is undertaken for all assigned engineering tasks or projects.
• Undertake engineering assessments of minor structural components related to mechanical systems, including brackets, seats, foundations, and supports. This includes evaluating load paths, assessing structural captivity, verifying compliance with relevant codes and standards, and documenting engineering rationale.
• Communicate engineering subjects, issues, solutions and risks effectively to all stakeholders (i.e. technical and non-technical…