Job Title: Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75233
Support the technology that keeps the UK Army mission-ready
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer at Ashton Vale, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.
As a Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer, you'll play a key role in delivering support solutions for a pioneering Land Cyber and Electro Magnetic Activities programme, helping to ensure the UK Army remains at the forefront of modern defence capability. Working across engineering, supportability, logistics and systems integration, you will influence how advanced technology is sustained throughout its operational life.
This is an exciting opportunity to apply and further develop your expertise in Integrated Product Support, Logistic Support Analysis, supportability engineering and through-life asset management. You'll work alongside highly skilled engineers and defence specialists, helping to shape innovative solutions that have a direct impact on national security. In return, you'll gain exposure to complex programmes, career development opportunities and meaningful work that contributes to a safer, more secure future.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders (including attendance at Project Meetings) to support delivery of all IPS Products
- Manage Project delivery to time, cost and Quality in accordance with the Project Schedule reporting any variances to the Project Manager and Engineering Manager
- Identify and record all IPS related risks (hardware and software) in the project Risk Register and contribute to determining mitigating actions that can be taken
- Act as peer reviewer for all IPS Reports and liaise with Chief Engineer for Assurance aspects of all published reports
- Support the Integrated Product Support Manager and/or Engineering Manager, acting as the Integrated Product Support Manager deputy, representing the ILS function internally and externally. Providing guidance and reviews to peers and subordinates
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 Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer
- 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 Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer
- Engineering HNC/HND with equivalent, 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 Nationals.
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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