Job Title: Engineering Support Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead Strategic Engineering Operations That Drive Defence Excellence
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Support Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As an Engineering Support Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a key role in aligning engineering operations with commercial and contractual requirements, while supporting the delivery of critical infrastructure projects for the Royal Navy.
Day-to-day, you’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for delivering business support, project engineering, and planning services across our Facilities Engineering (FE) organisation. This is a high-impact leadership role that fuses strategic planning, financial oversight, and technical expertise to shape operational performance and planning precision.
1. Managing the output of business support, project engineering, and planning teams.
2. Leading the development and delivery of the Annual Plan (AP) to meet contract and budget requirements.
3. Translating customer project management and planning needs into operational processes.
4. Overseeing business intelligence reporting and acting as Information Asset Owner (IAO).
5. Supporting financial forecasting and providing technical input for procurement activities.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Engineering Support Manager
6. Proven experience in project management, planning, and project controls.
7. Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills.
8. Understanding of information asset protection and cost centre finance management.
9. Effective conflict resolution and decision-making abilities.
10. Strong written and presentation skills.
Qualifications for the Engineering Support Manager
11. Degree in engineering or a related field, or
12. HND/HNC in engineering or a related discipline, or
13. Level 6 NVQ in engineering with extensive industry experience and demonstrable technical and managerial competencies.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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
14. Generous holiday allowance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
17. Employee share scheme
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. 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.
22. ‘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
23. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.