Job Title: Project Engineering Manager
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: From £46,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72579
Lead engineering that protects lives and shapes the future
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Engineering Manager at our Babcock Vehicle Engineering site in Walsall, West Midlands.
The role
As a Project Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead the multi‑disciplinary technical design and delivery of complex engineering projects across their full lifecycle, from concept through to in‑service support and disposal.
This is a rare opportunity to combine hands‑on engineering expertise with people leadership. You will manage and develop a team of engineers, act as the technical authority for your projects, and collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and external partners.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
- Leading and managing the engineering function across allocated projects, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality
- Acting as the technical point of contact for internal teams, customers and suppliers
- Ensuring engineering compliance with legal, regulatory and safety requirements
- Coaching, mentoring and developing engineers to build capability and performance
- Identifying and managing technical risks, dependencies and design trade‑offs
The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, 39 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Project Engineering Manager:
- System‑level engineering experience with vehicle integration
- Defining requirements, specifications and system architecture
- Designing for manufacturability, cost, weight and reliability
- Understanding testing, validation and homologation processes
- Proven team and people management experience
Qualifications for the Project Engineering Manager:
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. You will need to demonstrate:
- Problem-solving and root cause analysis (8D, A3, Ishikawa, 5-Why)
- Knowledge of automotive systems (powertrain, chassis, body, E/E, ADAS, thermal, or interiors)
- Knowledge of CAD/CAE tools and engineering documentation
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.
Closing date: 30/06/2026
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