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Engineering design manager

Plymouth
Babcock International
Design manager
Posted: 8 June
The role

Job Title: Engineering Design Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £56, - £60, + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

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 Engineering Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Engineering Design Manager, you’ll lead the delivery of complex engineering design solutions that underpin critical defence and infrastructure programmes. Working within Facilities Engineering, you’ll act as a technical authority and trusted advisor, ensuring designs are safe, compliant, and fit for purpose across both nuclear and non-nuclear environments.

Day-to-day, you’ll have a unique opportunity to influence major engineering projects from concept through to completion, working in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, drive performance, and build capability, accelerating your leadership career while contributing to projects that protect national security and support vital public infrastructure.

  • Leading the technical delivery of engineering design projects from concept through to handover
  • Managing design scope, resources, risks, and delivery to meet quality, time, and budget requirements
  • Acting as the technical authority and primary point of contact for design-related activities
  • Coordinating internal and external stakeholders to deliver complex design solutions
  • Ensuring designs meet safety, regulatory, and operational requirements throughout the lifecycle
  • This role is full time, 35 hours per week providing hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite and the remainder working from home.

    Essential experience of the Engineering Design Manager

  • Strong technical background within engineering, construction, or infrastructure environments
  • Proven experience managing the design lifecycle and solving complex engineering challenges
  • Understanding of design and safety requirements within regulated or safety-critical industries
  • Ability to engage and influence stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills with a proactive approach
  • Qualifications for the Engineering Design Manager

  • Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent experience
  • Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or working towards professional registration
  • Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution - 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 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.

    We are a disability confident committed employer.

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