Job Title: Bid Solutions and Cost Engineer
Location: Warminster, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £45, Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Help power the missions that keep the country safe
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Solution Generation and Cost Engineer at Warminster, near Bath, Somerset.
The role
As a Bid Solutions and Cost Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll transform complex customer needs into clear, deliverable solutions—and build robust, evidence‑based cost models that help us win work and deliver value for money. This role offers visible impact and influence: shaping a major opportunity pipeline, developing your commercial skills, and working across bids, operations and finance.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
1. Lead the creation of operationally deliverable, commercially sound solutions aligned to customer requirements and contract constraints.
2. Translate customer needs into clear work packages with defined activities, resources, dependencies and risks.
3. Develop traceable, evidence‑based cost estimates and breakdowns using recognised cost‑engineering methodologies.
4. Collaborate with Finance and Commercial teams to ensure cost builds align with pricing strategy and margin expectations.
5. Present solution outputs clearly through process flows, impact assessments, risk documentation and cost models for governance approvals.
This is a full‑time role, 37 hours per week, Monday–Friday, based at Warminster. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expectation of around three days a week on site to collaborate.
Essential experience of the Bid Solutions and Cost Engineer:
6. Background in project management and bids within complex or regulated environments.
7. Practical experience in cost estimating or cost engineering.
8. Ability to transform requirements into structured and implementable work packages.
9. Strong stakeholder engagement across operational, commercial and financial teams.
10. Confidence preparing and delivering clear solution documentation for review and approval.
Qualifications for the Bid Solutions and Cost Engineer:
11. Education to NQF Level 4, such as a Higher Apprenticeship, HNC or Level 4 NVQ, or equivalent experience.
12. A relevant technical or vocational qualification equivalent to NQF Level 3.
13. Full UK driving licence.
14. A Project Management qualification is preferred
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
15. Generous holiday allowance
16. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
17. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
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
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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