Engineering Support Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense services provider is seeking an Engineering Support Manager at their Devonport Royal Dockyard site. This role involves leading a multi-disciplinary team to align engineering operations with commercial requirements. Successful candidates will have strong project management and leadership skills, a degree in engineering, and the ability to obtain security clearance. Offering a hybrid working model, it provides excellent career development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management, planning, and project controls.
• Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Understanding of information asset protection and finance management.

Responsibilities

• Manage business support, project engineering, and planning teams.
• Lead Annual Plan development to meet contract and budget requirements.
• Oversee business intelligence reporting and act as Information Asset Owner.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Conflict resolution

Education

Degree in engineering or a related field

HND/HNC in engineering or a related discipline

Level 6 NVQ in engineering

Job description

Overview

Lead Strategic Engineering Operations That Drive Defence Excellence

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 Support Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

The role

As an Engineering Support Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a key role in aligning engineering operations with commercial and contractual requirements, while supporting the delivery of critical infrastructure projects for the Royal Navy.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for delivering business support, project engineering, and planning services across our Facilities Engineering (FE) organisation. This is a high-impact leadership role that fuses strategic planning, financial oversight, and technical expertise to shape operational performance and planning precision.

• Managing the output of business support, project engineering, and planning teams.
• Leading the development and delivery of the Annual Plan (AP) to meet contract and budget requirements.
• Translating customer project management and planning needs into operational processes.
• Overseeing business intelligence reporting and acting as Information Asset Owner (IAO).
• Supporting financial forecasting and providing technical input for procurement activities.

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

Essential experience of the Engineering Support Manager

• Proven experience in project management, planning, and project controls.
• Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Understanding of information asset protection and cost centre finance management.
• Effective conflict resolution and decision-making abilities.
• Strong written and presentation skills.

Qualifications for the Engineering Support Manager

• Degree in engineering or a related field, or
• HND/HNC in engineering or a related discipline, or
• Level 6 NVQ in engineering with extensive industry experience and demonstrable technical and managerial competencies.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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

• 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.

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