Engineering Administrator in Walsall

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation: £24, - £29, Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Supporting engineering excellence that protects what matters most.

As an Engineering Administrator, you’ll 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:

• Coordinate and prepare materials for meetings, including agendas and minutes and updating internal databases and systems.
• Support engineers with project administration, reports, and technical documentation and manage and maintain engineering documentation, records, and filing systems.
• Arrange travel, process expenses, and order office supplies and equipment.
• Obtain technical Repair and Maintenance Information via Vehicle Manufacturer portals.
• Provide 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.

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.
• ‘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.

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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