Senior Electrical Design Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension and life assurance

Digital GP access

Shopping portal

Professional Fees coverage

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock International in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for Communication Systems to provide system stewardship across a portfolio of critical assets. You will work with operations teams, project engineers and suppliers to ensure performance, reliability and future capability requirements are understood and managed.

This full-time, hybrid role at Devonport Royal Dockyard requires SC clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience in communication systems, electrical/electronic engineering, systems engineering or related discipline.
• Experience supporting or managing complex engineering assets within an operational environment.
• Understanding of asset stewardship, lifecycle management and critical infrastructure challenges.
• Experience identifying and managing technical risks, obsolescence and future capability requirements.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the System Steward for critical communication systems, maintaining knowledge of capability, performance and operational requirements.
• Developing lifecycle strategies, reference designs and asset management plans to support through-life capability.
• Monitoring asset health, resilience and obsolescence risks while identifying future investment opportunities.
• Providing engineering expertise and recommendations to support technical and business decision-making.
• Leading engagement with stakeholders, project teams and suppliers while supporting the future integration of communication network infrastructure into the portfolio

Skills

Communication systems

Lifecycle management

Stakeholder engagement

Security clearance SC

Education

Degree in Electrical/Electronic/Communications/Systems Engineering (or related)

Higher National Certificate/Diploma with relevant experience

Job description

As a Senior Electrical Engineer Communication Systems, you'll act as the System Steward for a portfolio of communication systems, providing strategic oversight throughout the asset lifecycle. You'll work closely with operations teams, maintainers, project engineers and technical specialists to ensure system performance, reliability and future capability requirements are understood and effectively managed. This is a full-time, permanent role working 35 hours per week, based at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a minimum of two days per week onsite. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Acting as the System Steward for critical communication systems, maintaining knowledge of capability, performance and operational requirements.
• Developing lifecycle strategies, reference designs and asset management plans to support through-life capability.
• Monitoring asset health, resilience and obsolescence risks while identifying future investment opportunities.
• Providing engineering expertise and recommendations to support technical and business decision-making.
• Leading engagement with stakeholders, project teams and suppliers while supporting the future integration of communication network infrastructure into the portfolio

Essential Experience of the Senior Electrical Engineer

• Experience within communication systems, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, systems engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting or managing complex engineering assets within an operational environment.
• Understanding of asset stewardship, lifecycle management and critical infrastructure challenges.
• Experience identifying and managing technical risks, obsolescence and future capability requirements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and problem-solving skills., Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Communications Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related discipline.
• Alternatively, a Higher National Certificate or Higher National Diploma with significant relevant experience.

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

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.

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 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