Engineering Manager

Job Title:                     Engineering Manager

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF73147

Lead safety‑critical engineering that protects national capability

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 Engineering Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the delivery of a portfolio of safety‑critical Engineering Support Equipment in support of the Astute Major Long Refit Programme. This is a rare opportunity to operate at the intersection of high‑hazard engineering, people leadership and nationally important delivery.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide technical leadership and strategic direction to a team of Design Managers and Engineers, ensuring designs are robust, compliant and fit for purpose within a highly regulated environment. Beyond technical assurance, you’ll shape resourcing and supply‑chain strategies, balance competing priorities and work closely with customers and stakeholders to deliver complex engineering solutions that truly matter.

• Leading the delivery of engineering portfolios, ensuring outputs meet safety, quality, cost and schedule requirements
• Managing and developing engineering teams, providing technical oversight, coaching and clear direction
• Ensuring engineering designs meet regulatory and safety standards, within a licensed nuclear environment
• Co‑ordinating resourcing and supply‑chain strategies to support successful delivery
• Engaging with internal and external stakeholders, acting as a trusted, customer‑facing engineering leader

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days a week on site/in the office.

Essential experience of the Engineering Manager

• Proven experience applying systems engineering principles across the full design lifecycle
• Experience leading delivery of engineering designs within a regulated or high‑hazard environment
• Strong leadership experience, managing multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Demonstrable experience delivering infrastructure or complex engineering solutions
• Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders and customers in demanding environments

Qualifications for the Engineering Manager

• Degree in a STEM discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or clear evidence of working towards registration
• Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution

• Chartered Engineer or Chartered Manager status - Desirable

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 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: 15/05/2026

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