Senior Systems Engineer - Satcom and RF

Job Title:             Senior Systems Engineer - Satcom and Radio Frequency
Location:             Tewkesbury, Gloucester + Hybrid working options
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time and Permanent 
Role ID:               SF57768

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 Senior Systems Engineer at our Ashchurch site.

The role
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team working on our customers' current and future satellite systems.

Day-to-day, you’ll act as a source of technical expertise in Radio Frequency (RF) communications systems, antenna systems and associated equipment as well as:

• Providing technical expertise in support of development, upgrades and maintenance of satellite communications ground station systems
• Providing support to military systems build and integration activities such as equipment rack builds, portable communications systems, installed systems, vehicle-mounted solutions
• Supporting with related sub-systems such as cryptographic equipment, network solutions, IT system configuration and electro-mechanical systems
• Supporting and working alongside the systems engineering capability
• Working closely with customers to understand their mission and needs and work with the whole team to devise suitable solutions that ensure our customers missions are a success

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and is based on site at Ashchurch, Tewkesbury and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Experience of the Senior Systems Engineer

• Experience in a communications systems engineering in a combination of RF comms and antenna systems
• Experience in Satellite Communications (SATCOM) system engineering
• A proven ability to work in the agile innovation space, whilst also adhering to a robust engineering policy that assures quality and safety of engineering outputs
• Ability to distil innovative thinking and customer/supplier collaboration into comprehensive feasibility studies, blending deep technical content with explanations/simplifications for non-technical audiences at all levels of seniority
• Excellent background skills in IT for the purposes of design and development as well as corporate computing for communication and document generation
• Experience in proposing innovative solutions; the courage to challenge design decisions and suggest alternative approaches

Qualifications for the Senior Systems Engineer

• Hold a relevant engineering degree or alternatively HNC/HND qualification – Desirable
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards Chartership – Desirable
• Full UK driving licence

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Enhanced Developed Vetting (EDV) 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
• 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
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer
• 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.

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