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Job Title: Principal Supportability Engineer
Location: Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £59,110 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64738
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 Principal Supportability Engineer at one of our sites.
The role
As a Principal Supportability Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead the development and delivery of Integrated Product Support (IPS) solutions across complex defence programmes, ensuring supportability is embedded throughout the product lifecycle.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
* Manage and coach a team of IPS Leads and specialists to develop support solutions across programme workstreams.
* Champion the integration of IPS elements such as Maintenance, Training, Supply Support, and Technical Data into the product lifecycle.
* Act as Cost Account Manager (CAM), overseeing labour demand, spend, and risk reporting.
* Liaise with internal and external stakeholders across UK sites to ensure programme alignment.
* Contribute to business growth through lessons learned, bid activities, and capability development.
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
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 Principal Supportability Engineer
* Proven in build design ILS experience
* Strong analytical skills to evaluate technical issues and propose solutions
* Experience in leading or supporting technical investigations and continuous improvement
* Ability to guide and mentor team members
* Excellent communication skills and ability to work across disciplines
Qualifications For The Principal Supportability Engineer
* Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in a relevant discipline with demonstrable experience
* Chartership or working towards chartership (desirable)
Security Clearance
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.
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.
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.
Closing date: 11/09/2025
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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Defense and Space Manufacturing
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