Satellite Remote Terminal Engineer

Job Title:              Satellite Remote Terminal Engineer
Location:              Bordon, Hampshire
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF70003

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Satellite Remote Terminal Engineer at our Oakhanger, Hampshire site.

The Role

As a Satellite Remote Terminal Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Babcock have been awarded the contract to manage the infrastructure for the UK MOD satellite network, Skynet.

Day-to-day, you’ll undertake preventative and corrective maintenance on land-based satellite communication terminals. This will involve maintaining the equipment to agreed levels of availability. The maintenance work covers; Electrical Safety Inspection and Test, Generator Servicing and Test, Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) Inspection and Test, RF Equipment Testing and Repair, Software and Baseband Testing and Repair, and General Equipment Repair.

• Deliver on land-based satellite communication terminals to customers on UK sites in accordance with agreed delivery profiles.
• Be part of the provision for 24/7/365 telephone support, UK and worldwide to all customers such that agreed levels of terminal availability are maintained.  
• Aim to resolve all support calls efficiently as possible within contracted timescales to maintain terminal availability. 
• Provide UK on site field support to all customers such that agreed levels of equipment availability are maintained. 
• Ensure a highly effective customer service culture is developed for the technical maintenance and support department with all employees fully dedicated to ensuring that, Infrastructure Management is recognised as the number one provider of choice for all customers.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Oakhanger, Hampshire.

Essential Experience of the Satellite Remote Terminal Engineer

• Demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills and stakeholder management experience.
• IT Literate, MS Word, Excel, Access.
• Demonstrate strong attention to detail and interpret the system under fault conditions.

Qualifications for the Satellite Remote Terminal Engineer 

• Higher National Certificate in Electrical or Communications Engineering or equivalent.

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.

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

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 26/05/2026

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