Supportability Engineer

Location: Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ; Faslane, Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL; Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF; Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; Lancaster, GB, LA14 1AF; Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

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.

Key responsibilities include:

• 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. 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:

• 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 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 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.