Senior Communications Engineer

Babcock International; Corsham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and Aviva DigiCare+

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees covered

Leave for Reservists

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Senior Communications Engineer to deliver cutting-edge military satellite communication solutions for maritime platforms. You’ll work on the UK MOD’s satellite network, ensuring secure, reliable, and future-ready systems.

You’ll test, install, and configure IP networks and RF gear on surface and sub-surface platforms, manage obsolescence, and coordinate with internal and external teams to meet UK security standards.

Qualifications

• Background in telecommunications or satellite communications.
• Familiarity with systems engineering lifecycle and serial communication services.
• Installation of network and RF equipment on maritime platforms.
• Delivery of MILSATCOM solutions to maritime environments.
• Strong knowledge of IP network architectures.

Responsibilities

• Testing and commissioning new equipment and services to meet UK security standards.
• Managing obsolescence and ensuring compliance with evolving security requirements.
• Collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver seamless communication solutions.
• Installing and configuring IP networks and RF equipment on surface and sub-surface maritime platforms.
• Responding to network incidents and providing third-line support for maritime customers.

Skills

Telecommunications

Satcom

IP networks

MILSATCOM

Security clearance

CCNA

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Senior Communications Engineer

Location: Corsham, GB, SN13 9NP Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Communications Engineer

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70416

Shape the Future of Defence Communications

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Communications Engineer at Hawthorn, near Corsham, Wiltshire. This can also be based at our Plymouth and Bristol sites.

The Role

As a Senior Communications Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of delivering cutting-edge military satellite communication solutions for maritime platforms. This is your chance to work on the UK MOD’s modernised satellite network, supporting national security and global defence operations. Your expertise will help ensure mission‑critical systems remain secure, reliable, and future‑ready making a real difference to the safety of our armed forces and the resilience of our nation.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Testing and commissioning new equipment and services to meet UK security standards.
• Managing obsolescence and ensuring compliance with evolving security requirements.
• Collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver seamless communication solutions.
• Installing and configuring IP networks and RF equipment on surface and sub-surface maritime platforms.
• Responding to network incidents and providing third-line support for maritime customers.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home depending on business requirements. The candidate for this role can be based from Corsham, Bristol or Plymouth.

Essential experience of the Senior Communications Engineer

• Background in telecommunications or satellite communications.
• Familiarity with systems engineering lifecycle and serial communication services.
• Installation of network and RF equipment on maritime platforms.
• Delivery of MILSATCOM solutions to maritime environments.
• Strong knowledge of IP network architectures.

Qualifications for the Senior Communications Engineer

• Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Cisco Professional (CCNA) certification preferred, or demonstrable experience at this level.

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. You may potentially be required to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance in the future.

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

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: 04/11/2026

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