Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £68,754 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68289
Lead the Future of Engineering at Devonport
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 or Babcock Technology Centre sites.
The role
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of a dynamic and growing team within Devonport Engineering. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of engineering projects that support both nuclear and non-nuclear assets.
Day-to-day, you’ll lead the technical delivery of complex design solutions, ensuring safety, quality, and innovation are at the forefront of everything we do.
- Scoping and managing the technical delivery of engineering projects across their lifecycle
- Supporting the Design Management Group in delivering safety-critical solutions on time and within budget
- Leading internal and external resources to meet project demands
- Ensuring design outputs meet quality standards and regulatory requirements
- Applying structured design processes tailored to both conventional and nuclear facilities
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager
- Strong technical background with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrated expertise in Civil engineering, construction, or infrastructure
- Proven experience across the design lifecycle with a logical approach to problem-solving
- Understanding of safety-critical design and substantiation, ideally within regulated industries
Qualifications for the Engineering Manager
- Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent experience
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status (or working towards it)
- Membership of a relevant professional institution
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. 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: 19/03/2026
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