Integrated Product Support Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading defence contractor in the UK seeks an Integrated Product Support Engineer to ensure maximum supportability and sustainability for systems and equipment. Responsibilities include developing product support strategies, collaborating with engineers, and conducting reliability analyses. Candidates should have experience in technical authorship and the defence sector. A generous benefits package and professional development opportunities are offered, alongside hybrid working options.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday trading options

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in technical authorship, ideally in the defence sector.
• Ability to conduct strategic sparing studies.
• Experience working with military specification documents.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement integrated product support strategies.
• Produce and support technical documents, manuals, and training programs.
• Conduct RAM analyses and FMECA.

Skills

Technical authorship

Strategic sparing studies

Automotive industry knowledge

Defence contract familiarity

Military specification documents

Job description

As an Integrated Product Support Engineer, you'll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll be at the heart of ensuring that systems, products, and equipment are designed and managed for maximum supportability, maintainability, and sustainability throughout their lifecycle. This is a role where your expertise will make a real difference, not only to our engineering projects but to national security and the future of defence. You'll also have the opportunity to grow your career through exposure to cutting‑edge projects and collaboration with industry experts.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities

• Develop and implement integrated product support strategies.
• Produce, develop, and support the creation of technical documents, manuals, guides, and training programs.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts, engineers, and product managers to ensure accuracy and clarity in all documentation.
• Conduct reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analyses to enhance product support.
• Perform Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Level of Repair Analysis (LORA).

The role can be based at either our Walsall, Bristol or Plymouth sites and the working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37.5 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, and occasional travel to other Babcock and customer sites may be required.

Essential technical experience

• Proven experience as a technical author, preferably within the defence sector.
• Experience with strategic sparing studies and sparing analysis.
• Automotive industry experience.
• Defence contract experience.
• Experience of military specification documents.

Qualifications and analytical skills

• Skills in ARMS studies.
• Quantitative FMECA (failure analysis).

Security clearance

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

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‑day special paid leave.
• Holiday trading – allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
• 'Be Kind Day' – one paid leave day a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with a chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and a benefits package that includes an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and trade control restrictions. This means 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).

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.