Job Title: Assistant Chief Engineer
Location: Bristol sites, or Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + 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 an Assistant Chief Engineer at our Bristol or Plymouth sites.
The Role
As an Assistant Chief Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll provide technical leadership, independent technical oversight and subject matter expertise to the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance and Cyber engineering teams to develop, install and support bespoke engineering solutions for our customers.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
1. Provide governance and oversight of the technical work of the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance and Cyber engineering teams, to ensure that our technical output is optimally compliant to customer requirements.
2. Ensure that the appropriate level of independent assurance is applied to the technical output, including chairing design reviews and conducting independent review of deliverables.
3. Help grow the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance and Cyber business through supporting bids, business development activity and representing Babcock in external meetings.
4. Provide subject matter expertise in the areas of Radio Frequency communications and Satellite Communications (SATCOM), Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA), Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare.
5. Ensure technical risks and issues are being appropriately managed and mitigated.
6. Ensure that our solutions are safe to build, commission and operate by our suppliers, customers and end users.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential Experience of the Assistant Chief Engineer
7. Significant experience and subject matter expertise in one of the relevant domains, including communication systems and electronic warfare, including the development of new solutions using a formal systems engineering approach.
8. Experience of Communications and Electronic Warfare systems and cyber-engineering capabilities is preferable.
9. Experience of overseeing the technical work of others, including reviewing designs and documentation, and authorising the release of deliverables.
10. Demonstrable experience of engineering delivery on large and/or complex engineering projects.
Qualifications for the Assistant Chief Engineer
11. Engineering degree or equivalent relevant experience.
12. Professional Registration with a relevant recognised body would be desirable.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance to start in this role. You will need to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) once in the 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
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee share scheme
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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
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
22. Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
23. Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer
24. A relocation package for those outside of the region
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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