Engineering Manager

Babcock International; Barrow-in-Furness; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP & health checks via Aviva"i

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day volunteering

Wellbeing and assistance programme

Job summary

Babcock in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, is seeking an Engineering Manager to influence the design, build, supportability and long-term availability of the UK's future submarine fleet. You will act as the senior engineering representative, collaborating with defence partners to ensure in-service insights shape future submarine capability, with hybrid working and travel to other sites.

The role requires leading cross-functional teams, delivering maintenance planning, risk management and technical

Qualifications

• Significant engineering leadership experience within complex, highly regulated engineering environments.
• Extensive experience planning and/or delivering submarine maintenance activities within a waterfront setting.
• In-depth knowledge of nuclear submarine base or deep maintenance, including product safety and assurance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders across multiple organisations.
• Experience working within industrial partner organisations and complex programme environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering supportability activities across future submarine programmes.
• Influence senior stakeholders and industrial partners to ensure engineering support considerations remain central to programme decisions.
• Represent Babcock at technical, programme and customer engagement forums.
• Provide expert advice and guidance on submarine maintenance, support and availability requirements.
• Collaborate with defence, customer and industry partners to drive effective engineering outcomes and future capability development.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Submarine maintenance

Stakeholder management

Industrial partnerships

Programme environments

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Up to £80,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74681

Shape the Future of the Royal Navy's Next Generation Submarines

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 Engineering Manager at our Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria site.

The role

As an Engineering Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal role in influencing the design, build, supportability and long-term availability of the UK's future submarine fleet. Working at the heart of one of the most significant defence programmes in the country, you'll act as Babcock's senior engineering representative, collaborating with major industry partners and defence stakeholders to ensure the insights of the in-service maintainer are embedded into future submarine capability

Day-to-day, you'll be required to

• Lead engineering supportability activities across future submarine programmes.
• Influence senior stakeholders and industrial partners to ensure engineering support considerations remain central to programme decisions.
• Represent Babcock at technical, programme and customer engagement forums.
• Provide expert advice and guidance on submarine maintenance, support and availability requirements.
• Collaborate with defence, customer and industry partners to drive effective engineering outcomes and future capability development.

35 hours per week, based at Barrow-in-Furness. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to other Babcock sites will be expected, including Devonport, Clyde and Bristol

Essential experience of the Engineering Manager

• Significant engineering leadership experience within complex, highly regulated engineering environments.
• Extensive experience planning and/or delivering submarine maintenance activities within a waterfront setting.
• In-depth knowledge of nuclear submarine base or deep maintenance, including product safety and assurance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders across multiple organisations.
• Experience working within industrial partner organisations and complex programme environments

Qualifications for the Engineering Manager

• Degree-level qualification in an engineering discipline or equivalent professional engineering experience.
• Demonstrable engineering leadership background within complex engineering programmes

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

• 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. 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

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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.

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: 01/10/2026

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