Integrated Logistics Support Engineer

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Integrated Logistics Support Engineer to be the link between engineering design and operational support. The role involves developing strategies, analyzing performance data, and ensuring systems remain reliable and cost-efficient. Applicants should have a background in electrical or mechanical engineering and experience in the defence sector.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to digital health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of professional fees

Special paid leave for reservists

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in high-value product service support.
• Good knowledge of MOD support frameworks.
• Understanding customer requirements and estimating costs.

Responsibilities

• Developing and delivering project IPS strategies and plans.
• Collaborating with various teams for product supportability.
• Evaluating lifecycle costs to enhance system reliability.

Skills

Bid responses

Service support

Through-life support standards

Matrix-managed team experience

Knowledge of MOD support frameworks

Education

Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

HND/HNC in relevant field

Job description

Job Title: Integrated Logistics Support Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64171

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 Integrated Logistics Support Engineer at our Bristol site.

The role
As a Integrated Logistics Support Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on, practical engineer with a passion for developing innovative solutions to complex Integrated Product Support (IPS) challenges. You will be the crucial link between engineering design and operational support, ensuring that systems within the remit of TLES (Through Life Equipment Support) are maintained, reliable, and cost-efficient throughout their lifecycle.

Day-to-day, you'll capture and analyse system requirements and performance data to drive maintenance, repair, and overhaul strategies. You'll also:

• Determining, developing, and delivering project IPS strategies, plans, and reports in conjunction with service and project deliverables
• Collaborating with engineering, production, and supply chain teams to provide product and system supportability reporting and assurance
• Evaluate lifecycle costs and recommend solutions that enhance system reliability while minimizing downtime
• Develop detailed maintenance plans, technical manuals, and training programs that ensure our processes and products meet national, Babcock, and MOD standards
• Supporting engineering in producing Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD), and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) information

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Integrated Logistics Support Engineer:

• Experience contributing to bid responses, understanding customer requirements, estimating costs, and providing bid content such as ILS/IPS plans and working to ASD/AIA SX000i
• Experience in the service support of low-volume, high-value products and systems in a highly regulated environment
• Knowledge and experience of through-life support standards
• Experience working with customers in a matrix-managed team
• Good knowledge of MOD support frameworks and experience applying them as a supplier

Qualifications for the Integrated Logistics Support Engineer:
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. However, a degree or HND/HNC qualified in electrical or mechanical engineering or relevant experience in the defence industry is desirable.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintainSecurity 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. 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: 19/06/2025

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