Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer
Location: Devonport, Plymouth, Rosyth, Fife, Bristol
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead Complex Defence Projects – Join Us as a Senior Systems Engineer
About Us
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 Systems Engineer at one of our Babcock sites.
The role
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be deployed on exciting projects, including complex shipbuilding and design for platforms such as Arrowhead. Your work will help define and understand problems, capture stakeholder needs, and translate them into system and sub-system requirements that shape the future of naval engineering.
This is an opportunity to influence major defence programmes, ensuring compliance and delivering solutions that matter. You’ll join a collaborative team that values innovation and offers clear pathways for career progression.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Understand customer needs and elicit formal requirements.
2. Derive and manage requirements for systems and sub-systems.
3. Ensure compliance is maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
4. Define acceptance methodologies for system and sub-system requirements.
5. Manage the Assurance and Acceptance process with customers and suppliers.
This role is full time and based onsite at either Bristol, Rosyth or Devonport.
Essential experience of the Senior Systems Engineer:
6. Experience in requirements elicitation and management and/or acceptance of complex systems.
7. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
8. Strong understanding of systems engineering principles.
Qualifications for the Senior Systems Engineer:
9. Degree-level qualification in a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) or equivalent industry/armed forces experience.
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