Senior Systems Engineer

Babcock International; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global engineering firm is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join their team in Bristol. In this role, you'll tackle complex projects in naval engineering, managing system requirements and ensuring compliance. Candidates should have a degree in a STEM field and experience in requirements management. This full-time position offers generous benefits, including a matched pension scheme and excellent development opportunities. Join us to shape the future of defense engineering.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP annual health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave

Holiday Trading benefit

Be Kind Day for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have experience in requirements elicitation and management of complex systems.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills are essential.
• A deep understanding of systems engineering principles is required.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer needs and elicit formal requirements.
• Derive and manage requirements for systems and sub-systems.
• Ensure compliance is maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Define acceptance methodologies for system and sub-system requirements.
• Manage the Assurance and Acceptance process with customers and suppliers.

Skills

Requirements elicitation and management

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Systems engineering principles

Education

Degree-level qualification in a STEM subject

Job description

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, Rosyth, Fife, Bristol

Compensation: Competitive Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF69762

Lead Complex Defence Projects Join Us as a Senior Systems Engineer

About Us

At Babcock we are working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Senior Systems Engineer at one of our Babcock sites.

The role

As a Senior Systems Engineer you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be deployed on exciting projects including complex shipbuilding and design for platforms such as Arrowhead 140. Your work will help define and understand problems, capture stakeholder needs and translate them into system and sub-system requirements that shape the future of naval engineering.

This is an opportunity to influence major defence programmes ensuring compliance and delivering solutions that matter. You'll join a collaborative team that values innovation and offers clear pathways for career progression.

Day-to-day you'll have the following responsibilities:

• Understand customer needs and elicit formal requirements.
• Derive and manage requirements for systems and sub-systems.
• Ensure compliance is maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Define acceptance methodologies for system and sub-system requirements.
• Manage the Assurance and Acceptance process with customers and suppliers.

This role is full time and based onsite at either Bristol, Rosyth or Devonport.

Essential experience of the Senior Systems Engineer

• Experience in requirements elicitation and management and/or acceptance of complex systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles.

Qualifications for the Senior Systems Engineer

• Degree-level qualification in a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) or equivalent industry/armed forces experience.

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 - ()

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 days 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 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: 09/12/2025

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Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1