Communications Engineer

Job Title:                     Communications Engineer

Location:                     Harrogate, North Yorkshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71381

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Communications Engineer at Forest Moor, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, you will also be required to travel and work at other sites within the UK and Overseas.

The Role

As a Communications Engineer, you’ll support the delivery, maintenance and optimisation of essential communications infrastructure that underpins defence operations in the UK and overseas. This role sits within our Mission Systems business, where we design, build, maintain and support advanced systems that keep people, assets and nations safe.

You’ll play a central part in ensuring critical communications equipment performs to the highest operational standards. From preventative and corrective maintenance to supporting engineering teams on complex technical challenges, you’ll help ensure the systems our customers depend on remain safe, resilient and mission‑ready. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to grow your technical expertise, broaden your engineering experience, and contribute to work that protects the UK and its allies.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Carry out preventative and corrective maintenance to keep communication systems and control equipment performing to operational standards.
• Support engineering colleagues in resolving operational and technical issues across the site.
• Maintain accurate technical and administrative records, ensuring essential information is captured and reported.
• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of yourself and others by following all Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• Comply with all regulatory, technical and operational requirements relevant to the equipment and systems you support.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Stores and Quality Controller

• Proven ability within a similar technical, operational or maintenance environment.
• Competence in carrying out maintenance and operational engineering tasks.
• Ability to work to demanding timescales with a high level of self‑motivation.
• Strong problem‑solving ability with awareness of emerging technical developments.
• Basic computer skills and foundational knowledge of data communications and networking technologies.

Qualifications for the Stores and Quality Controller

Essential:

• BTEC National Diploma in Engineering (Electronic/Electrical) or equivalent qualification
• Full UK driving licence

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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: 26/02/2026

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