Weapons and Complex Systems Director

Job Title:              Weapons and Complex Systems Director  
Location:              Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    up to £100,000 + car allowance, bonus and family healthcare 
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF62374

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us as a Weapons and Complex Systems Director, you will be part of a senior leadership team within our Naval Nuclear Business helping to make this happen, based at one of our key sites at Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre. 

The role

As a Weapons and Complex Systems Director, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity for an established Engineering Leader to assume a key role in Babcock's contribution to the submarine enterprise. You will directly contribute to sustaining engineering support to Naval operations and the provision of safe, available and capable submarines.  

Day-to-day, you’ll provide critical leadership and engineering oversight, guidance and direction for the weapons and complex systems teams within our submarine support engineering activity which helps to provide capable and available submarines for the Royal Navy.

Key activities include:

• Working with the MoD customers within the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) to deliver the Major Systems Approval Authority requirements for engineering support to deployed submarine weapons and complex systems to time, cost and quality
• Maintaining a strong relationship with our customer and Industry Partners in the weapons system enterprises
• As a member of the Naval Nuclear Senior Leadership Team, helping to drive the business forward in the broadest sense, managing personnel, finance and commercial agendas
• Providing the requisite engineering capability to enable individual submarine maintenance projects
• Ensuring capability sustainment for these specialist domains such that engineering activity on submarine weapons and complex systems is conducted by suitably qualified and experienced personnel
• Identifying new initiatives to provide future engineering support for the SDA’s mission

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with an expectation of at least two days in the office environment.

Essential experience of the Director Submarine Weapons and Complex Systems

• Experience in the senior leadership of engineering teams within a suitably related discipline
• Strong experience of leading, training and mentoring engineering teams and/or as a Project Lead Engineer
• Demonstrable experience within engineering projects and overcoming engineering challenges 
• Experience in developing engineering capability 
• Experience of engineering governance and assurance
• Sufficient experience of the broader wider business elements such as commercial, financial and procurement

Qualifications for the Director Submarine Weapons and Complex Systems

• Degree in an Engineering or Science discipline or demonstrable equivalent experience
• Membership of a relevant professional institution (i.e. IET, IMechE etc.)
• Chartered Engineer status

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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 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: 03/03/2025

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