Dreadnought Senior Engineering Manager

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead cutting-edge engineering on a flagship defence programme. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Manager at Ashton Vale, near Bristol.

The role:

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll play a pivotal leadership role on a high-profile submarine programme, delivering complex payload handling and launch systems that are critical to national security. This is an opportunity to lead from the front shaping engineering strategy, guiding multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of innovative, safety‑critical solutions. Working at the heart of our Mission Systems business, you’ll influence the full engineering lifecycle, drive continuous improvement, and make a tangible contribution to programmes that protect and serve. It’s a role that offers real purpose, career progression, and the chance to work on some of the most advanced engineering projects in the UK.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be responsible for:

• Ensuring technical outcomes are delivered compliant with contractual requirements, regulation / legislation and standards, whilst ensuring adherence to cost / schedule forecast.
• Engineering scope and management to plan and execute through lifecycle engineering activities.
• Risk management and managing the identification, capture, triage, communication, and resolution of project technical issues.
• Ensuring that product safety and security is proactively managed regardless of customer requirement.
• Product Quality, ensuring the engineering team works as one team for achieving the delivery of the project/programme.
• Reporting and Metrics: Track and report on engineering metrics in support of project status and KPI’s.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process / product improvements and drive initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of engineering delivery.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Engineering Manager:

• Extensive engineering management and solution design and delivery experience across the engineering lifecycle.
• Significant experience of leading and managing multi-disciplinary technical teams and programmes.
• Demonstrable experience of Project Delivery on large and/or complex engineering Projects, preferably in aerospace, defence or adjacent industry.
• Experience of implementing and executing engineering and business processes and improvements.
• Demonstration of financial and commercial awareness, management of engineering cost and risk.

Qualifications for the Engineering Manager:

• Mechanical or Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree, Master’s Degree level would be beneficial.
• Chartered Engineer at a relevant institution, or in a position to apply for chartership upon appointment.

Security Clearance:

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

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 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.

Closing date: 29/05/2026