At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead design projects, ensuring safety and quality throughout the lifecycle.
- Company: Join Babcock, a leader in defence and engineering innovation.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension scheme, health support, and employee share options.
- Other info: Full-time role with opportunities for career growth in a safety-critical environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on vital defence programmes while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in managing technical delivery and a relevant degree.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
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 Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role involves:
- Acting as the Technical Authority, ensuring designs are developed, verified and delivered across the project lifecycle.
- Managing the technical delivery of design projects, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, time and cost requirements.
- Coordinating resources to support effective and efficient design delivery.
- Maintaining structured and compliant design processes, ensuring governance and regulatory standards are consistently met.
- Supporting the delivery of complex, safety‑critical solutions through validation, planning, and stakeholder collaboration.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential Experience Of The Design Manager:
- Demonstrable experience managing technical delivery within design‑led projects.
- Strong understanding of design processes, lifecycle management, and governance.
- Experience working within regulated, safety‑critical environments such as defence, marine, nuclear, or aerospace.
- Proven ability to lead teams and coordinate multi‑disciplinary resources.
- Experience managing design assurance, risk, and compliance requirements.
Qualifications For The Design Manager:
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
- Chartered status (or working towards) with a recognised professional institution – Desirable.
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.
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.
Design Manager in Plymouth employer: Babcock International Group
At Babcock, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a supportive work culture that values safety and innovation at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site. As a Design Manager, you will benefit from generous holiday allowances, a matched contribution pension scheme, and access to health and wellness resources, all while contributing to vital defence programmes that make a real difference. We are committed to your professional growth, providing opportunities to develop your leadership capabilities and technical expertise in a dynamic and safety-critical environment.
Contact Details:
Babcock International Group Recruitment Team
