Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead cutting-edge engineering on a flagship defence programme
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Manager at Ashton Vale, near Bristol.
The role
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll play a pivotal leadership role on a high-profile submarine programme, delivering complex payload handling and launch systems that are critical to national security. This is an opportunity to lead from the front shaping engineering strategy, guiding multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of innovative, safety-critical solutions.
Working at the heart of our Mission Systems business, you’ll influence the full engineering lifecycle, drive continuous improvement, and make a tangible contribution to programmes that protect and serve. It’s a role that offers real purpose, career progression, and the chance to work on some of the most advanced engineering projects in the UK.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for:
1. Ensuring technical outcomes are delivered compliant with contractual requirements, regulation / legislation and standards, whilst ensuring adherence to cost / schedule forecast.
2. Engineering scope and management to plan and execute through lifecycle engineering activities
3. Risk management and managing the identification, capture, triage, communication, and resolution of project technical issues,
4. Ensuring that product safety and security is proactively managed regardless of customer requirement
5. Product Quality, ensuring the engineering the team works as one team for achieving the delivery of the project/programme.
6. Reporting and Metrics: Track and report on engineering metrics in support of project status and KPI’s.
7. Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process / product improvements and drive initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of engineering delivery.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager
8. Extensive engineering management and solution design and delivery experience across the engineering lifecycle.
9. Significant experience of leading and managing multi-disciplinary technical teams and programmes
10. Demonstrable experience of Project Delivery on large and/or complex engineering Projects,
11. preferably in aerospace, defence or adjacent industry Experience of implementing and executing engineering and business processes and improvements.
12. Demonstration of financial and commercial awareness, management of engineering cost and risk.
Qualifications for the Engineering Manager
13. Mechanical or Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree, Master’s Degree level would be beneficial.
14. Chartered Engineer at a relevant institution, or in a position to apply for chartership upon appointment.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.
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 — 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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