Engineering Manager

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Be Kind Day

Professional fees paid

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking an Engineering Manager at the Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth. The role delivers leadership across a complex engineering environment, guiding multidisciplinary teams and ensuring safe, on-schedule delivery of critical defence projects.

You will oversee planning, governance, and stakeholder engagement, with opportunities to advance leadership and contribute to national defence infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Applying systems engineering principles throughout the lifecycle.
• Leading delivery of complex engineering projects and major programmes.
• Experience in regulated environments such as nuclear licensed sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and suppliers to deliver projects safely and on schedule.
• Oversee planning, prioritisation and delivery of engineering activities.
• Provide technical governance and assurance across lifecycles.

Skills

Systems engineering

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Risk management

Multidisciplinary teams

Education

STEM degree

Chartered Engineer (CEng) / Incorporated Engineer (IEng)

Professional institution membership

Job description

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £57,300 - £82,300 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76500

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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £57,300 - £82,300 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76500

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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll provide leadership, coordination and governance across a complex engineering environment, supporting the delivery of engineering solutions for a major defuel programme. This is an exciting opportunity to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams, influence strategic decision-making and drive the safe delivery of engineering projects that support national defence and critical infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you’ll oversee engineering activities from planning and prioritisation through to delivery, ensuring technical excellence, regulatory compliance and programme success. In return, you'll have the opportunity to further develop your leadership capability, work alongside leading engineering professionals and contribute to projects of national importance.

• Leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and suppliers to deliver multiple engineering projects safely, efficiently and on schedule.
• Managing engineering resources, priorities and workload allocation to support programme objectives.
• Providing technical oversight, governance and assurance throughout the engineering and project lifecycles.
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration and delivery.
• Identifying, managing and mitigating engineering risks while maintaining compliance with regulatory and safety requirements.

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

Essential Experience Of The Engineering Manager

• Applying systems engineering principles throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Delivering facility design projects and infrastructure upgrade programmes.
• Supporting projects within a nuclear licensed site or similarly regulated environment.
• Leading the delivery of complex engineering, infrastructure or major project activities.
• Managing engineering governance, technical assurance and stakeholder engagement across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications For The Engineering Manager

Essential:

• Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng), or evidence of working towards professional registration.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution.

Desirable:

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
• Chartered Manager status.

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: 28/10/2026