Job Title: Engineering Delivery Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive
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 an Engineering Delivery Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As an Engineering Delivery Manager within Devonport Engineering, you’ll lead and coordinate a team of Engineering Managers within Devonport Engineering’s Technical Authority. Your role is to ensure that engineering design activities are safely delivered, appropriately resourced and aligned to business and customer priorities across nuclear and non‑nuclear facilities.
Day to day, you’ll provide oversight across the full engineering lifecycle, manage performance, and drive continuous improvement—ensuring high‑quality engineering outcomes that enable submarine and warship upkeep programmes. It’s a unique opportunity to influence critical infrastructure, shape engineering capability, and further develop your leadership career in a highly regulated environment.
1. Leading and coordinating a team of Engineering Managers to deliver complex engineering outputs
2. Providing technical and professional oversight to ensure safe, compliant design solutions
3. Managing resources and capability, ensuring the team is competent and appropriately skilled
4. Engaging with stakeholders, balancing customer requirements, safety and delivery constraints
5. Driving performance and continuous improvement across internal and external engineering delivery
This role is full time, 35 hours per week providing hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days in the office/onsite and the remainder working from home.
Essential experience of the Engineering Delivery Manager
6. Proven experience delivering engineering solutions across the full design lifecycle
7. Demonstrable leadership experience within complex, safety‑critical environments
8. Experience delivering facility designs or upgrades on regulated or nuclear licensed sites
9. Strong understanding of engineering governance, safety and assurance practices
10. Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities effectively
Qualifications for the Engineering Delivery Manager
11. Degree in a STEM subject, or demonstrable equivalent experience
12. Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or clear evidence of working towards professional registration
13. Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution (advantageous)
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
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 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
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.
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