Job Title: Supportability Engineer
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria or Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Leicester, Leicestershire or Devon, Plymouth or Faslane, Helensburgh + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Help shape the future of the UK’s most critical defence platforms
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Supportability Engineer at one of our sites.
The role
As a Supportability Engineer, you’ll be part of a specialist engineering team delivering Integrated Logistics Support across submarine programmes central to the UK’s national security. This is a role with real purpose - combining technical challenge, strategic impact and continuous development.
Day-to-day, you’ll build upon proven communication skills to convey complex technical details to a wide range of stakeholders developing domain knowledge to resolve problems and support the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Function.
1. Producing reliability, maintainability and availability analysis for complex systems and assets
2. Generating technical claims and structured evidence to support reliability and maintainability performance predictions
3. Influencing system and platform design using reliability modelling to improve in‑service support and sustainability
4. Communicating complex engineering information clearly to a wide range of technical and non‑technical stakeholders
5. Contributing to working groups and stakeholder forums to support Availability, Reliability and Maintainability activities
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Supportability Engineer
6. Engineering knowledge with experience in complex or safety‑critical environments
7. Ability to simplify complex technical problems into clear, actionable outputs
8. Strong communication skills with the confidence to influence key stakeholders
9. Capability to work autonomously with a proactive, solutions‑focused mindset
10. Motivation to drive your own learning, development and career progression
Qualifications for the Supportability Engineer
11. A STEM‑related qualification or equivalent experience (professional experience in lieu of formal education will be considered)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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