Digital Engineering - Process and Adoption Lead

Job Title:                     Process and Adoption Lead

Location:                     UK, Hybrid

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF71733

Drive the future of digital engineering transformation across a global organisation

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as Process and Adoption Lead. This is a global role and can be based at any of our main UK locations, near your nearest commutable town and county.

The role

As Process and Adoption Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how engineering processes are modernised, aligned and embedded throughout a global organisation operating at the heart of defence, aerospace and engineering. This is an opportunity to influence how digital engineering practices are adopted across Babcock, driving improvements in efficiency, quality and compliance while enabling teams to deliver engineering excellence that supports national security and critical infrastructure.

This role offers the chance to expand your leadership impact, collaborate with diverse engineering communities and play a key part in Babcock’s ongoing digital transformation.

Day-to-day, you’ll work as part of the Global Engineering Team, leading process alignment to digital engineering capability and ensuring new ways of working are understood, embraced and sustained.

• Align engineering processes and workflows to PLM‑enabled, CAD and MBSE digital capability, ensuring they are understood and consistently adopted across the organisation.
• Take ownership of end‑to‑end engineering process performance, ensuring clarity, efficiency and continual improvement.
• Build strong relationships across engineering leadership and teams, understanding real‑world challenges and driving user‑centred process adoption.
• Use data, feedback and structured methodologies to continually refine and enhance process effectiveness.
• Influence stakeholders at all levels to promote standardised and coherent ways of working across the global engineering community.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Process and Adoption Lead

• Extensive experience in engineering process design, improvement or transformation roles. 
• Strong understanding of engineering lifecycle processes and PLM‑driven workflows.
• Experience implementing standardised processes across multiple regions or business units.
• Familiarity with process modelling techniques such as BPMN.

Qualifications for the Process and Adoption Lead

Essential:

• Degree in Engineering, Operations or Business Systems.

Desirable:

• Lean, Six Sigma or similar process‑focused qualifications

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.  Must be British Nationals

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 – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
• Flexible working options to support a healthy work‑life balance
• A dynamic working environment with strong development opportunities

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: 03/02/2026