Senior Systems Engineer

Nuclearinst; Rosyth, Dunfermline; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock in the UK is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead complex defence projects. You’ll translate stakeholder needs into system and sub-system requirements for naval platforms, including Arrowhead 140, and drive compliance across the project lifecycle.

Join a collaborative team that values innovation, with hybrid working (2 days in the office) and clear career progression. A SC clearance is required, and you’ll work at Bristol, Plymouth or Rosyth.

Qualifications

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

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

Requirements management

Problem solving

Communication skills

Systems engineering principles

Education

Degree-level STEM

Job description

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Bristol, Plymouth or Rosyth + Hybrid Working

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73198

Lead Complex Defence Projects – Join Us as a Senior Systems Engineer

About Us

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 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 is a full-time, permanent position based at one of our key locations— Bristol Business Park (Stoke Gifford, Bristol), HMNB Devonport (Plymouth, Devon), or Rosyth (Fife, Scotland). The role follows a hybrid working pattern, with 2 days per week in the office. You will work 37 hours per week.

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 - 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 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 26,000 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: 19/06/2026

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