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Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer

locationBristol, UK
PublishedPublished: 04/09/2025
Full time

Job Title: Systems Engineer - Requirements and Acceptance Engineer

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £46,000 - £54,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract 12 months

Role ID: SF67033

Shape the Future of National Defence Solutions

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Systems Engineer – Requirements and Acceptance Engineer at any of our main UK locations, near your nearest commutable town.

The role

As a Systems Engineer – Requirements and Acceptance Engineer, you’ll be a key player in a high-tempo solution development team, helping to design and document winning proposals for national defence tenders. This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise in requirements engineering to shape complex, integrated solutions that make a real-world impact.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

  • Leading the requirements management plan on behalf of the solution lead
  • Managing engineering change processes and ensuring configuration control
  • Supporting the creation and review of requirements documentation across the lifecycle
  • Building acceptance and test cases linked to verification and validation matrices
  • Collaborating with technical experts to ensure traceability and compliance

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with hybrid working patterns available. While you can be based anywhere in the UK, you’ll need to be flexible to travel for meetings and collaboration across the country.

Essential experience of the Systems Engineer - Requirements and Acceptance Engineer:

  • Experience across the full engineering lifecycle (V-Model)
  • Expertise in requirement extraction, assessment, and decomposition
  • Familiarity with requirements database systems and acceptance documentation
  • Ability to communicate across technical disciplines including systems, software, and hardware
  • Experience working within a System of Systems architecture environment

Qualifications for the Systems Engineer - Requirements and Acceptance Engineer:

  • Relevant engineering qualifications (degree level or equivalent experience)

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