Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £61,474 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65217
Lead the engineering delivery of major defence infrastructure and shape the future of UK maritime capability
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take responsibility for managing the technical delivery of complex engineering projects within Babcock’s Major Infrastructure Projects (MIP) business unit. This work plays a crucial role in enabling the next generation of ship and submarine programmes, including the design, build and commissioning of critical facilities that support the Royal Navy’s most advanced fleets.
Day-to-day, you’ll act as the Technical Authority and single point of contact—leading engineering definition from initial concept through to final handover. This role offers the chance to influence major capital projects, engage with multidisciplinary engineering teams and build expertise in both conventional and nuclear-regulated environments.
- Scope and manage the technical delivery of engineering projects throughout the full lifecycle.
- Support the Design Management Group in developing and delivering complex design solutions for safety-critical facilities, ensuring quality, time and budget expectations are met.
- Secure, organise and lead internal and external resources according to project demands.
- Ensure all design outputs are fit for purpose and delivered within agreed schedule and cost parameters.
- Apply structured design processes proportionately across both conventional and nuclear facility
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager
- Strong technical background with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Minimum of four years’ experience in an engineering, construction or infrastructure environment.
- Understanding of the engineering design lifecycle and a logical, structured approach to problem solving.
- Experience developing and substantiating solutions for safety‑critical applications, ideally in a regulated industry.
- Experience working on major infrastructure or large‑scale building projects.
Qualifications for the Engineering Manager
- Degree in a STEM discipline (or equivalent relevant experience).
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or clear evidence of actively working towards registration with a professional institution.
- Additional training or certification in project delivery, engineering management or safety-related disciplines - Desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
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: 11/03/2026
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