Engineering Manager

Job Title:              Engineering Manager
Location:              Ruislip, West London
Compensation:     Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF64400

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Manager at our Ruislip site.

The role
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will oversee the engineering team to enhance and sustain the availability of fleet and operational equipment, ensuring alignment with London Fire Brigade’s (LFB’s) operational needs and Babcock’s contractual obligations.

Day-to-day, you’ll focus on both in-build maintenance and modification requirements, while collaborating with the Asset Replacement team to integrate new assets in accordance with customer requirements. You’ll also:

• Provide leadership, direction and management of the function 
• Ensure that engineering maintenance and inspection standards, monitor compliance and feedback learning points to all stakeholders.
• Providing technical engineering support and guidance
• Technical responsibility for the specification of the Customer Assets and 
• Ensure compliance with legislation at all times whilst building a proactive culture of continuous improvement and development

This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Ruislip.

Essential experience of the Engineering Manager:

• Previous experience in driving improvements in customer assets
• Experience of leading a team and being the responsible person
• In a previous role would have created a continuous improvement ethos to prevent defect re-occurrence which may result in modification 
• Vehicle and operational equipment technical specification development experience 
• Modelling and forecasting equipment maintenance

Qualifications for the Engineering Manager:

• Professional engineering qualification
• Chartered Engineer or working towards completion

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Clearance (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 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
• 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: 06/06/2025

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