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Your Role
Provides team management and leadership to deliver engineering activities to required technical scope and quality for - Low complexity engineering multi discipline projects or A single medium complexity engineering project. Ensures the application of engineering processes, resources and tools in line with Babcock policy to achieve the project or program technical outcomes. Individual may have allocation of a Technical Independent role for another project and or product,service
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Job Title: Design Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: From £57, + 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 Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Design Manager, you’ll be responsible for the technical delivery of design projects, acting as the Technical Authority throughout the project lifecycle. You will ensure that design solutions are developed, validated and delivered in line with safety, quality, time and cost requirements.
Day-to-day, you’ll coordinate resources, maintain robust design processes, and support the delivery of complex solutions within a safety-critical environment. Your work will directly contribute to vital defence programmes, giving you the opportunity to make a real difference while developing your leadership capability and technical expertise.
1. Acting as the Technical Authority, ensuring designs are developed, verified and delivered across the project lifecycle
2. Managing the technical delivery of design projects, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, time and cost requirements
3. Coordinating resources to support effective and efficient design delivery
4. Maintaining structured and compliant design processes, ensuring governance and regulatory standards are consistently met
5. Supporting the delivery of complex, safety-critical solutions through validation, planning, and stakeholder collaboration
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Design Manager
6. Demonstrable experience managing technical delivery within design-led projects
7. Strong understanding of design processes, lifecycle management, and governance
8. Experience working within regulated, safety-critical environments such as defence, marine, nuclear, or aerospace
9. Proven ability to lead teams and coordinate multi-disciplinary resources
10. Experience managing design assurance, risk, and compliance requirements
Qualifications for the Design Manager
11. Degree qualified in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
12. Chartered status (or working towards) with a recognised professional institution - Desirable
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 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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