Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Location: Ashton House, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary & Benefits Package
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 Principal Systems Engineer at our Ashton House, Bristol site.
The role
As a Principal Systems Engineer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead the technical activity in the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) domain of our Mission Systems business to ensure the delivery of outstanding capability to our customer.
Day to day, you’ll own all Engineering output and ensure quality of our offering through the implementation of a robust Systems Engineering approach.
1. You will assume the lead architect role for projects, managing requirements for new tasks, ensuring appropriate solutions are designed and implemented that can be tested and validated to meet our customers’ expectations.
2. You will work closely with the Systems Engineering team and other discipline to ensure capability of In-Service support. This includes the provision of engineering fixes to emergent problems, particularly where design change may be required.
3. You will be responsible for liaison with our large stakeholder community to ensure smooth implementation of any required mid-life design changes.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1-2 days in the office/onsite and 3-4 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Principal Systems Engineer
4. You will have the ability to confidently take a leading role in a technical team that often can span multiple disciplines, organisations, agencies and customers.
5. You will be innovative, bringing big ideas and solving complex problems with simple and elegant solutions.
6. You will have demonstrable experience in leading and managing Systems Engineering in accordance with ISO.
7. Ideally you will have experience working within defence and supported C4ISR systems.
8. Knowledge of the MoD procurement process, including the CADMID lifecycle is highly desirable.
9. Experience within one of the following areas would be highly desirable Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR), SIGINT, GEOINT, IMINT, Military communications and networks, Electronic Warfare systems or Command and Control systems.
Qualifications for the Principal Systems Engineer:
10. Be degree level qualified within an Engineering Discipline
11. Systems Engineering certifications or qualifications.
12. Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional body or have a demonstrable plan to achieve within a defined timescale.
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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
20. ‘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
21. A dynamic working environment.
22. Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.