Supportability Manager

Manpower RPO - Babcock; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Engineering Manager, contributing to the UK's naval fleet's future through innovative submarine design and supportability engineering. This role offers hybrid working, competitive salary, and a range of employee benefits.

Benefits

Single Private Medical Insurance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day'

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in submarine in-service support operations.
• Proven expertise in submarine maintenance planning and execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the supportability assessment and demonstration programme.
• Strengthen collaboration between Babcock and key partners.
• Oversee Logistic Supportability Analysis for assessments.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic Management

Education

Degree-level education

Chartered status

Job description

Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Location: Plymouth or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £72,000 DOE + Bonus + Car Allowance Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63666

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 Senior Engineering Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Join a cutting-edge submarine design and build programme, shaping the future of the UK's naval fleet. This role offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of replacing the Astute Class Nuclear Submarine, contributing to advanced maritime innovation and engineering excellence.

Day-to-day, you'll drive Babcock's strategic efforts to assess, enhance, and optimise the supportability of next-generation submarine platform design. Leverage effective project and engineering management to integrate operational insights and ensure in-service experience shapes future advancements.

• Lead the supportability assessment and demonstration programme.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert in submarine supportability and maintainability.
• Strengthen collaboration between Babcock, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, and the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA).
• Co-ordinate the design influence activities through the use of support representatives embedded in the system and spatial design teams
• Oversee Logistic Supportability Analysis (LSA) for AR&M and LCC assessment.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Engineering Manager

• Extensive experience in submarine in-service support operations.
• Proven expertise in submarine maintenance planning and execution, especially in waterfront settings.
• Skilled in supportability engineering, with a preference for Integrated Product/Logistic Support.
• Strong leadership and strategic management capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills, fostering collaboration across all levels and with customers.

Qualifications for the Senior Engineering Manager

• Chartered status with a recognised engineering or management institute.
• Degree-level education or equivalent qualifications and experience.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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

• Single Private Medical Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• 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.
• '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 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 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.

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