Supportability Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria or Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Leicester, Leicestershire or Devon, Plymouth or Faslane, Helensburgh + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £45,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Help shape the future of the UK’s most critical defence platforms. 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 Supportability Engineer at one of our sites.

The role:

• As a Supportability Engineer, you’ll be part of a specialist engineering team delivering Integrated Logistics Support across submarine programmes central to the UK’s national security.
• This is a role with real purpose - combining technical challenge, strategic impact and continuous development.
• Day-to-day, you’ll build upon proven communication skills to convey complex technical details to a wide range of stakeholders developing domain knowledge to resolve problems and support the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Function.
• Producing reliability, maintainability and availability analysis for complex systems and assets.
• Generating technical claims and structured evidence to support reliability and maintainability performance predictions.
• Influencing system and platform design using reliability modelling to improve in‑service support and sustainability.
• Communicating complex engineering information clearly to a wide range of technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Contributing to working groups and stakeholder forums to support Availability, Reliability and Maintainability activities.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience:

• Engineering knowledge with experience in complex or safety‑critical environments.
• Ability to simplify complex technical problems into clear, actionable outputs.
• Strong communication skills with the confidence to influence key stakeholders.
• Capability to work autonomously with a proactive, solutions‑focused mindset.
• Motivation to drive your own learning, development and career progression.

Qualifications:

• A STEM‑related qualification or equivalent experience (professional experience in lieu of formal education will be considered).
• 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.

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.
• ‘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 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.

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