Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Design ManagerLocation: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working ArrangementsCompensation: 56,837

If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.
- 60,000 + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF74053At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Engineering Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site. The roleAs a Engineering Design Manager, you'll lead the delivery of complex engineering design solutions that underpin critical defence and infrastructure programmes.

Working within Facilities Engineering, you'll act as a technical authority and trusted advisor, ensuring designs are safe, compliant, and fit for purpose across both nuclear and non-nuclear environments. Day-to-day, you'll have a unique opportunity to influence major engineering projects from concept through to completion, working in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment.

You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, drive performance, and build capability, accelerating your leadership career while contributing to projects that protect national security and support vital public infrastructure.

Leading the technical delivery of engineering design projects from concept through to handoverManaging design scope, resources, risks, and delivery to meet quality, time, and budget requirementsActing as the technical authority and primary point of contact for design-related activitiesCoordinating internal and external stakeholders to deliver complex design solutionsEnsuring designs meet safety, regulatory, and operational requirements throughout the lifecycleThis role is full time, 35 hours per week providing hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite and the remainder working from home.

Essential experience of the Engineering Design ManagerStrong technical background within engineering, construction, or infrastructure environmentsAbility to engage and influence stakeholders across multidisciplinary teamsExcellent communication and organisational skills with a proactive approachProven experience managing the design lifecycle and solving complex engineering challengesUnderstanding of design and safety requirements within regulated or safety-critical industriesQualifications for the Engineering Design ManagerDegree in a STEM subject or equivalent experienceChartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or working towards professional registrationMembership of a relevant professional engineering institution
- DesirableSecurity ClearanceThe 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.

Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels
- GOV.UK ( ).What we offer Generous holiday allowanceMatched contribution pension scheme, with life assuranceAccess to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+Employee shopping savings portalPayment of Professional FeesReservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leaveHoliday 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.

This Window opens February through to March annually.'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 charityBabcockWe'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 with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'.

We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. xohmjla

We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. Closing date: 14/10/2026#BABDESTNUC