Engineering Team Lead

Babcock International; Hollywater; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and Aviva DigiCare+ health

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservists paid leave

Be Kind Day: volunteering leave

Flexible working

Dynamic working environment

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking an Engineering Team Lead in Oakhanger, Hampshire to oversee the Installation and Maintenance Team on a critical Military Satellite Communications contract. You will lead engineers to maintain and enhance satellite ground station infrastructure, ensuring round-the-clock service.

This role demands systems engineering expertise in network and RF, strong leadership, and a proactive approach to safety and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in systems engineering within network/RF communications.
• Experience with satellite ground station equipment and fault diagnosis.
• Ability to follow safety procedures and work autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate 2nd line problem reporting and maintenance tasks for network operations.
• Monitor communications systems to ensure operational integrity.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver satellite services across current and future solutions.
• Ensure all maintenance activities receive required approvals before starting.

Skills

Systems engineering

Network & RF communications

Leadership

Autonomy

Education

HNC or above in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Title: Engineering Team Lead

Location: Oakhanger, Hampshire

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74770

Lead critical satellite communications engineering that helps keep the UK connected, protected and mission ready.

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Team Lead at Oakhanger, near Bordon, Hampshire. Drawing on your engineering expertise and leadership skills, you'll help support vital military satellite communications capabilities that underpin national security and defence operations.

The role

As an Engineering Team Lead, you'll oversee the Installation and Maintenance Team supporting a critical Military Satellite Communications contract. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team responsible for maintaining and enhancing complex satellite ground station infrastructure, ensuring reliable communications services around the clock.

Working at the forefront of defence technology, you'll play a key role in keeping mission-critical systems operational while developing your expertise across satellite communications, systems engineering, network infrastructure and RF communications. You'll have the opportunity to lead skilled technical teams, collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders and directly contribute to work that supports the UK's defence capabilities.

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

• Co-ordinate for all problem reporting activities and the execution of 2nd line rectification tasks in support of Network Operations.


• Monitor and controlling communications systems, always ensuring operational integrity.


• Work closely with other stakeholders and operational support teams to ensure delivery of satellite services across both present and future solutions.


• Follow safe working in line with site Health and Safety and Radiation policies and ensure all maintenance activities are delivered in line with the statement of work performance criteria and accurately delivered.


• Verify that all planned maintenance activities have the appropriate approvals prior to commencing work.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Oakhanger, Hampshire.

Essential experience of the Engineering Team Lead

• Systems engineering experience within the Network and RF communications fields.


• Proven experience maintaining, and fault diagnosis of equipment used in satellite communications including control and monitoring systems.


• Experience of working to safety procedures and be Proficient in working with Microsoft Office software.


• Good organisational skills, ability to prioritise workloads, with a sense of autonomy.

Qualifications for the Engineering Team Lead

• HNC or above in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or relevant evidence of experience.


• Working at Height competencies (training provided)

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement


• 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


• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met


• A dynamic working environment

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: 20/10/2026

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