Overview

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be at the heart of transforming innovative ideas into robust, scalable, and high-quality solutions that meet customer needs and drive business success. This is a pivotal role where your leadership will shape the future of our products and engineering capabilities, making a real impact on national defence and security.

Responsibilities

• Defining and implementing engineering frameworks aligned with global processes
• Leading engineering management plans for key programmes
• Championing systems engineering best practices to enhance product maturity
• Supporting production readiness evaluations for safety, efficiency, and scalability
• Managing design baselines and ensuring traceability throughout development

This position involves travel and working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role. This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with hybrid working patterns available to help you balance your professional and personal life. Travel to Babcock sites and offices will be required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in systems engineering, product development, or a similar role
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills with a commitment to quality
• Understanding of design principles, processes, and techniques
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Accuracy in data collection and reporting
• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Software, or related field)
• Knowledge of industry standards such as Military Standards, ISO, or AS9100

Security and Compliance

The 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

About Babcock

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.