Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Location: Devonport, Plymouth, Rosyth, Fife or Bristol
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Drive Excellence in Complex Engineering Projects
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Engineering Manager at one of our Babcock sites.
The role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be the focal point for planning and managing complex multi-discipline projects, promoting best practice, and mentoring team members. You’ll identify and develop strategic capabilities — people, processes, and tools — to deliver technical excellence. Your leadership will make a real impact on national security and open doors for your own career growth.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Manage multi-discipline teams to ensure delivery of technical scope.
2. Build strong customer relationships to deliver agreed project outcomes efficiently.
3. Approve technical documentation in line with the Engineering Design Lifecycle.
4. Oversee technical management of the supply chain to ensure compliance and quality.
5. Manage resource demands for recruitment, development, and allocation to projects.
This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Engineering Manager:
6. Significant post-degree experience across engineering disciplines, including design, analysis, specification, safety case support, installation, commissioning, and team supervision.
7. Proven ability to manage complex projects across varied technical topics.
Qualifications for the Senior Engineering Manager:
8. Engineering or Science degree in a relevant discipline with substantial experience.
9. Chartered Engineer status and membership of a relevant institution.
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 .
What we offer
10. Generous holiday allowance
11. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
12. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
13. Employee share scheme
14. Employee shopping savings portal
15. Payment of Professional Fees
16. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
17. 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.
18. ‘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
19. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.