Engineering Support Manager – Devonport Royal Dockyard

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Type: Full time / Permanent

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role ID: SF68695

Closing date: 06/11/2025

Role Overview

As an Engineering Support Manager, you’ll play a key role in aligning engineering operations with commercial and contractual requirements while supporting the delivery of critical infrastructure projects for the Royal Navy. Day‑to‑day, you will lead a multi‑disciplinary team responsible for delivering business support, project engineering, and planning services across our Facilities Engineering organisation. This high‑impact leadership role fuses strategic planning, financial oversight, and technical expertise to shape operational performance and planning precision.

Responsibilities

• Managing the output of business support, project engineering, and planning teams.
• Leading the development and delivery of the Annual Plan (AP) to meet contract and budget requirements.
• Translating customer project management and planning needs into operational processes.
• Overseeing business intelligence reporting and acting as Information Asset Owner (IAO).
• Supporting financial forecasting and providing technical input for procurement activities.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience in project management, planning, and project controls.
• Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Understanding of information asset protection and cost centre finance management.
• Effective conflict resolution and decision‑making abilities.
• Strong written and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering or a related field, or
• HND/HNC in engineering or a related discipline, or
• Level 6 NVQ in engineering with extensive industry experience and demonstrable technical and managerial competencies.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role. Many positions within the company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

Benefits

• 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 benefit allowing UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enabling employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year 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 International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.