Job Title: Integrated Product Support Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75234
Lead the support strategy behind the technology protecting tomorrow
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Integrated Product Support Manager at Ashton Vale, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.
As an Integrated Product Support Manager, you'll be at the heart of delivering support solutions for a groundbreaking Land Cyber and Electro Magnetic Activities programme, helping to ensure the UK Army remains at the cutting edge of defence technology. This is a customer-facing leadership role where you'll work alongside highly skilled engineers, managers and technicians to shape the future support strategy for sophisticated military systems.
Working across engineering, supportability, logistics and programme delivery, you'll influence how complex equipment is maintained, sustained and optimised throughout its operational life. Your expertise will help ensure critical defence capabilities remain mission-ready, supporting those who protect the nation. In return, you'll have the opportunity to develop your career within a global defence, aerospace and engineering organisation that values innovation, collaboration and professional growth.
Day-to-day, you’ll be the key IPS liaison between the Authority and the Babcock Land CEMA Team. Supporting the Lead and Principal Engineers to ensure compliance requirements, while delivering objectives to ensure readiness to deliver support to each in-service element. As an IPS Manager you shall:
- Planning and controlling IPS-related management tasks in interdisciplinary teams throughout the entire project life cycle. Ensure compliance with contractual requirements and managing IPS milestone deliveries against time, quality and cost.
- Coordinate and manage the Supportability, AR&M, Technical Communication and Training workstreams.
- Develop, manage, and maintain the IPS programme plan, deliverables, and assurance activities. Participate in assurance activities to validate the overarching Supportability Case.
- Act as the Projects Subject Matter Expert, providing advice and guidance. Through building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Represent the IPS function as primary Point of Contact (PoC) for Land CEMA projects internally and externally.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Integrated Product Support Manager
- Demonstrable experience of working throughout the engineering lifecycle to ensure the artifacts for the project delivered to the highest standard for the project to the customer.
- A good understanding of cross domain and cross boundary requirements development and interface control.
- Determining and Managing Stakeholder Requirements, Life Cycle Tailoring, Verification, Validation and Transition to Operation.
- Understanding of accreditation processes for Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and bespoke software.
Qualifications for the Integrated Product Support Manager
- Degree or equivalent in Engineering such as HNC/HND with relevant experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.
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 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
- Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
- A dynamic working environment
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: 13/08/2026
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