Senior Engineering Manager - ANZ

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; West Devon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the UK is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to oversee complex engineering projects at their Devonport location. The role includes managing multi-discipline teams, ensuring project delivery, and building customer relationships. The ideal candidate is required to have significant engineering experience and an Engineering or Science degree. This position offers a hybrid work model with various employee benefits.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant post-degree experience across various engineering disciplines.
• Proven ability to manage complex engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-discipline teams for project delivery.
• Build strong customer relationships.
• Approve technical documentation.
• Oversee supply chain compliance.
• Manage recruitment and project resource allocation.

Skills

Project management

Customer relations

Technical documentation approval

Supply chain management

Education

Engineering or Science degree

Job description

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Senior Engineering Manager – ANZ

Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF69732

Drive Excellence in Complex Engineering Projects

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 Engineering Manager at Devonport, near Plymouth, Devon.

The role

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be the focal point for planning and managing complex multi-discipline projects, promoting best practice, and mentoring team members. You’ll identify and develop strategic capabilities—people, processes, and tools—to deliver technical excellence. Your leadership will make a real impact on national security and open doors for your own career growth.

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

• Manage multi-discipline teams to ensure delivery of technical scope.
• Build strong customer relationships to deliver agreed project outcomes efficiently.
• Approve technical documentation in line with the Engineering Design Lifecycle.
• Oversee technical management of the supply chain to ensure compliance and quality.
• Manage resource demands for recruitment, development, and allocation to projects.

This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Engineering Manager:

• Significant post-degree experience across engineering disciplines, including design, analysis, specification, safety case support, installation, commissioning, and team supervision.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects across varied technical topics.

Qualifications for the Senior Engineering Manager:

• Engineering or Science degree in a relevant discipline with substantial experience.
• Chartered Engineer status and membership of a relevant institution.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security 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

• 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.