Senior Reliability and Maintainability Engineer in Bristol

Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Help deliver the next generation of military capability. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Reliability and Maintainability Engineer at Ashton Vale, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.

The role:

As a Senior Reliability and Maintainability Engineer, you'll play a critical role in supporting a groundbreaking Land Cyber and Electro Magnetic Activities programme, helping ensure the UK Armed Forces remain at the forefront of technological capability. Working at the intersection of engineering, data analysis, systems integration and through-life support, you'll influence the design, performance and availability of complex defence systems that contribute directly to national security. This is an exciting opportunity to work on innovative defence and engineering programmes, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and shape solutions that make a tangible difference.

Day-to-day, you'll have the opportunity to grow your expertise in reliability engineering, maintainability analysis, Integrated Product Support and systems engineering while contributing to projects that protect and support those who serve.

• Conduct detailed reliability analysis, including functional Failure Analysis, physical Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), and root cause analysis to identify and mitigate potential failures.
• Prepare and maintain comprehensive R&M technical documentation, including R&M case reports.
• Develop and implement maintainability plans to ensure systems are designed for ease of maintenance and support.
• Analyse maintenance and operational data to identify trends and areas for improvement as part of our overall DRACAS.
• Provide technical support and guidance to design and engineering teams to enhance system reliability and maintainability.
• Work with Systems Engineering to develop test plans, conduct reliability testing, and validate system performance against requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Safety, Systems Engineering, IPS, service delivery and Project Management, to ensure R&M requirements delivered.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in R&M.
• Ad hoc support the IPS Manager and/or Engineering Manager, acting as the IPS Manager deputy, representing the IPS function internally and externally.
• Providing R&M guidance and reviews to peers and subordinates.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrable experience of working throughout the engineering lifecycle to ensure the artifacts for the project delivered to the highest standard for the project to the customer.
• A good understanding of cross domain and cross boundary requirements development and interface control.
• Determining and Managing Stakeholder Requirements, Life Cycle Tailoring, Verification, Validation and Transition to Operation.
• Understanding of accreditation processes for COTS and bespoke software.

Qualifications:

• Engineering HNC/HND with equivalent, relevant experience.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK Nationals. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

What we offer:

• 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 the majority of 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.
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• A dynamic working environment.

Babcock is 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 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.