Job Title: Design Engineer
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: From £42,600 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72380
Shape the future of defence and engineering through innovative vehicle design
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 Design Engineer at our Walsall site, near Walsall, West Midlands.
The role
As a Design Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be accountable for delivering accurate, safe and efficient designs that meet clearly defined requirements. You will play a key role in creating innovative and functional vehicle conversions, owning the design journey from early concept through to production and in service support.
Day to day you’ll be required to:
- Design and develop vehicle systems and conversions from concept through to validated, production ready solutions
- Produce detailed 2D and 3D CAD models and associated technical documentation
- Support performance analysis, testing, validation and troubleshooting activities
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver against cost, quality and schedule requirements
- Apply engineering standards, processes and best practice to ensure safe and compliant designs
The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday 08:00 to 17:00, Friday 08:00 to 13:00, totalling 39 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Design Engineer:
- Experience working within an automotive or vehicle focused engineering environment
- Strong technical understanding of engineering standards, processes, components and design techniques
- Proven ability to plan, prioritise and deliver work to project deadlines
- Well developed communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Strong analytical thinking and problem solving capability
Qualifications for the Design Engineer:
Degree qualified in an engineering related subject or able to demonstrate equivalent professional experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and NPPV1 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: 21/05/2026