Job Title: Engineering Administrator
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: £24,400 - £29,800 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68442
Supporting engineering excellence that protects what matters most
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 Administrator at Babcock Vehicle Engineering, near Walsall, West Midlands.
The role
As an Engineering Administrator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will provide vital administrative and operational support to a multidisciplinary engineering team. Your work will help ensure engineering activities run smoothly, documentation is maintained accurately, and projects remain aligned with customer requirements and company standards. This is a great opportunity to build experience within a highly collaborative engineering environment while contributing to work that supports national defence capabilities.
Day to day you’ll be required to:
- Coordinating and preparing materials for meetings, including agendas and minutes and updating internal databases and systems
- Supporting engineers with project administration, reports, and technical documentation and managing and maintaining engineering documentation, records, and filing systems
- Arranging travel, processing expenses, and ordering office supplies and equipment
- Obtaining technical Repair and Maintenance Information via Vehicle Manufacturer portals.
- Providing Data input support into Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Product Data Management (PDM) tools.
The role is based on site at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 5:00pm, Friday 8:00am to 1:00pm
Essential experience of the Engineering Administrator
- Administration experience within an engineering, automotive, manufacturing, or similar environment
- Strong organisational skills with an analytical mindset
- Competent user of Microsoft Office applications
- Experience using Navision or similar systems, advantageous
Qualifications for the Engineering Administrator
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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 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
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.
Application Guidance
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. We encourage early applications, as we may close the advert before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of strong candidates.
Closing date: 29/01/2026
