Engineering Manager

Babcock International; Corsham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Corsham, England, is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to oversee engineering activities in Satellite Communications. The successful candidate will manage mixed discipline teams, ensuring effective delivery of projects. Candidates should have proven experience in Systems Engineering, project delivery practices, and a relevant degree. This role offers hybrid working arrangements, competitive salary, and various employee benefits, including a pension scheme and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Systems Engineering with a good understanding of cross domain requirements.
• Ability to lead and manage mixed discipline engineering teams for project success.

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering scope and technical outcomes across multiple projects.
• Lead technical teams to deliver systems engineering activities.
• Own all Systems Engineering deliverables for assigned work packages.

Skills

Holistic Life Cycle Management

MoD procurement processes

Project delivery practices

Team leadership

Education

Degree or equivalent in Engineering

HNC/HND with equivalent, relevant experience

Job description

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Corsham Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 70451

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Manager at our Hawthorn, Wilshire and across our Bristol sites (Ashton Vale, Bristol and Babcock Technology Centre).

The Role

As Engineering Manager, you will be implementing the engineering across Satellite Communications to ensure delivery to the customer to meet their requirements.

As part of this an extensive modernisation programme taking place. This role would ideally suit a highly experienced Systems Engineer looking to take the next step with their career. The Principal Systems Engineer will report to the Program Engineering Manager. Duties include:

• Manage engineering scope and technical outcomes: Collaborate with Project Managers to plan and execute lifecycle engineering activities in line with contractual, regulatory, and industry standards, following Babcock’s Global Engineering Lifecycle and Program Management Plans, including cost and schedule forecasting across multiple projects.
• Technical Team Management: Manage and lead mixed discipline engineering teams, ensuring the provision of resources, guidance, and support needed is provided to allow the teams to perform effectively.
• Delivery of systems engineering activities in accordance with the Top-Level Engineering Management Plan, from requirements capture to delivery. Champion best practice Babcock processes and tailoring.
• Own all Systems Engineering deliverables for assigned work packages, including engineering plans with the technical lead, providing full life cycle support and ensuring alignment with industry-standard systems and product life cycles.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Engineering Manager

• Proven experience in Holistic Life Cycle Management with balanced competencies across the Systems Engineering Discipline. A good understanding of cross domain and cross boundary requirements and interface.
• Working knowledge of MoD procurement processes, project delivery practices and technical standards compliance.
• Ability to lead a team of mixed discipline engineers to deliver complex projects.

Qualifications for the Engineering Manager

• Degree or equivalent in Engineering. HNC/HND with equivalent, relevant experience is valued and welcomed.

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. You may be required to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance once in post.

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. 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
• 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: 07/01/2026

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