Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £65,000 to £79,000 Dependent Upon Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73172
Lead Complex Engineering That Keeps the UK Safe
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Engineering Manager at our Stoke Gifford, Bristol site.
The role
As an Engineering Manager you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead the delivery of high-impact performance engineering across complex defence programmes. You’ll shape engineering strategy, improve asset availability, and drive innovation using data-led insights.
This is a leadership role with real influence - where your decisions directly enhance operational capability and engineering excellence across the submarine support enterprise. You’ll also grow your career by leading high-performing teams and working alongside industry-leading experts.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Deliver engineering outcomes across performance engineering, including availability analysis and maintenance improvements
- Lead development and execution of engineering roadmaps to improve asset performance and reliability
- Analyse data to generate insights, supporting operational decisions and performance reporting
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives using maintenance data, logistics analysis, and modelling techniques
- Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams while building strong stakeholder relationships
This role is full time, 35 hours per week, and based at our Bristol site. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager
- Demonstrated experience within the submarine support enterprise or complex defence engineering environments
- Strong understanding of Integrated Logistics Support or Integrated Product Support principles and their impact on asset availability
- Proven experience in engineering leadership and team management
- Track record of delivering change and driving successful engineering outcomes
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and communicate complex insights clearly to senior leaders
Qualifications for the Engineering Manager
- Chartered Engineer status with a recognised Engineering Council institution, or equivalent experience and professional standing
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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: 05/06/2026
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