Design Manager - Electrical Services

Babcock; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Electrical Design Manager, where your expertise will guide a major power distribution upgrade project. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a team in a highly regulated environment, ensuring that all design processes are meticulously managed and documented. With a focus on safety and quality, you will collaborate with various teams to achieve project goals. The company promotes flexible working arrangements, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life while contributing to impactful projects in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in electrical design and leading engineering teams.
• Experience in highly regulated environments is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering for a power distribution network upgrade.
• Ensure design documentation meets project standards and schedules.

Skills

Electrical design

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Education

Degree in a STEM Subject

EIT or Chartered in another engineering discipline

Job description

Job Title: Electrical Design Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devonport + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £59,110 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63607

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 site.

The role
As a Design Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will provide engineering management for a major power distribution network upgrade within 14 Dock at Devonport.

Day-to-day, you’ll support the development, leadership, management and co-ordination of the technical design packages agreeing project related objectives, technical governance, managing performance of Engineering and Design resource and making appropriate technical management decisions.

• Ensure that the design documentation covers the scope of operations required by the Project Manager and is produced to agreed standards, schedule and budget.
• Ensure that the processes and activities being managed are appropriately documented with appropriate records maintained and configuration and quality controls applied.
• Support the 14 Dock Readiness Design Manager to implement the project approach to Health, Safety and Environmental issues as applicable to design.
• Liaise with Engineering Services Design and Technical Authority to ensure that Relevant Good Practice is employed.
• Interface with Nuclear safety – ensure a good interface and working relationship with the nuclear safety team

This role is full time 35 hours per week and is mostly remote, with occasional travel required to Devonport Dockyard.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Design Manager

• Electrical design background
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment
• Demonstratable experience leading a team; should have experience as Design Manager, Engineering Manager or Principal Engineer

Qualifications for the Design Manager

• EIT or Chartered in another engineering discipline
• Degree in a STEM Subject

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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• 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
• ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 20/05/25

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