Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67059
Lead the Future of Engineering Excellence
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Manager at our site in Bristol, Southwest England.
The role
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be at the heart of transforming innovative ideas into robust, scalable, and high-quality solutions that meet customer needs and drive business success. This is a pivotal role where your leadership will shape the future of our products and engineering capabilities, making a real impact on national defence and security.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Defining and implementing engineering frameworks aligned with global processes
- Leading engineering management plans for key programmes
- Championing systems engineering best practices to enhance product maturity
- Supporting production readiness evaluations for safety, efficiency, and scalability
- Managing design baselines and ensuring traceability throughout development
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with hybrid working patterns available to help you balance your professional and personal life. Travel to other Babcock and customer sites across the Southwest and M4 corridor will be expected.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager:
- Proven experience in systems engineering, product development, or a similar role
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills with a commitment to quality
- Understanding of design principles, processes, and techniques
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Accuracy in data collection and reporting
Qualifications for the Engineering Manager:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Software, or related field)
- Knowledge of industry standards such as Military Standards, ISO, or AS9100
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (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: 11/09/2025