Engineering Manager - Defence in Kirkcaldy

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead brilliant engineering. Shape national safety. Build a career that matters. At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Manager – Defence at our Rosyth site.

The role:

As an Engineering Manager – Defence, you’ll lead and inspire a highly skilled engineering team, providing technical authority, direction and assurance across complex, safety‑critical programmes. This is a senior leadership role where your decisions shape engineering outcomes, protect product integrity and uphold the highest standards of safety and compliance.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities:

• Leading the technical delivery of engineering scope, ensuring work is robust, safe and compliant with all standards
• Managing and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams, setting direction and enabling high performance
• Owning design and maintenance baselines, change control and engineering governance
• Assuring product quality, safety and regulatory compliance across all engineering activities
• Controlling engineering costs, risks and technical outcomes in line with programme objectives

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience:

• Operating as a senior professional engineer with proven engineering management experience
• Working within highly regulated environments requiring safety justification
• Making sound technical decisions and providing authoritative engineering leadership
• Leading teams delivering complex engineering solutions
• Applying structured engineering delivery and assurance processes

Qualifications:

• Engineering or science degree
• Professional membership with chartered status

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 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

Disability and inclusive support:

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: 19/05/2026