Mission Systems Engineer

Job Title:                     Mission Systems Engineer

Location:                     Dunfermline, Fife, Devonport, Plymouth or Bristol

Compensation:           £45,000 - £55,000

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF69757

Shape the Future of Defence Engineering

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Mission Systems Engineer at Devonport, Bristol or Rosyth, near Plymouth, Bristol or Dunfermline.

The role

As a Mission Systems Engineer, you’ll help shape the next generation of complex naval platforms by contributing to the development of ship designs and mission system integrations. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of defence, aerospace and engineering—where your expertise directly enhances national security and supports the Royal Navy’s operational capability.

You’ll play a key role in integrating Combat, Communications, Navigation and Network Systems into marine platforms, ensuring they are engineered, installed and delivered to perform in the most demanding environments. Your work will support concept development, early-stage design and major bids—giving you high-impact experience that will accelerate your professional growth and broaden your engineering capability.

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

• Supporting customer engagement to develop and agree clear and unambiguous system requirements.
• Generating and assessing sensor and weapon suite options for concept designs.
• Taking ownership of mission system compartments or systems through design stages.
• Supporting the specification, selection and management of external suppliers and services.
• Applying Mission Systems/Combat Systems Engineering principles within a multidisciplinary team.

This is a full‑time position. The role is based at Devonport, Bristol or Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available (two days per week onsite).

Essential experience of the Mission Systems Engineer:

• Experience integrating Combat, Communications, Navigation or Network Systems into marine platforms.
• Ability to work effectively within multi‑discipline teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications for the Mission Systems Engineer:

• Degree in an engineering discipline, or HND/HNC with extensive relevant experience.
• Membership of a relevant professional institution, with chartered status or a clear route to achieving it.
• Ability to achieve UK Security Check (SC) clearance.
• Ability to work with or on controlled goods, including ITAR‑controlled technologies.

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 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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 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: 20/03/2026