Job Title: Senior Supportability Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £58, Depending on Experience + 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 Senior Supportability Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard sites.
The role
As a Senior Supportability Engineer, you’ll have a role that offers the chance to grow your career on complex, high impact projects while contributing to national security and engineering excellence.
Day-to-day, you’ll help shape the maintenance strategy and through life supportability for one of the UK’s most significant defence programmes. You’ll analyse design and in service technical data, derive optimised maintenance tasks, and provide technical leadership across multi disciplinary teams, directly influencing availability and safety for Royal Navy personnel at sea.
1. Lead engineering workstreams and oversee project deliverables to meet programme milestones.
2. Facilitate working groups across industry partners, the MOD, naval stakeholders and internal engineering teams.
3. Develop maintenance task information and support the production of Maintenance Task Instructions using technical design data.
4. Ensure compliance with engineering governance, safety standards and regulatory requirements.
5. Report progress, risks and opportunities, providing clear, evidence based recommendations.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Senior Supportability Engineer
6. Strong background in Integrated Product Support, Maintenance Planning or Support Engineering on complex programmes.
7. Advanced data analysis and interpretation skills, turning complex datasets into actionable insights.
8. Proven experience leading engineering projects to scope, schedule and budget.
9. Skilled in risk identification, assessment and mitigation.
10. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with confidence presenting technical topics to varied audiences.
11. LSAR exposure and/or ex Royal Navy Integrated Logistic Support experience - Desirable
Qualifications for the Senior Supportability Engineer
12. HNC or above in mechanical or electrical engineering (or equivalent relevant experience).
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
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee share scheme
17. Employee shopping savings portal
18. Payment of Professional Fees
19. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
20. 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.
21. ‘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.
22. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.