Engineering Manager in Corsham

Location: Corsham Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 at our Hawthorn, Wilshire and across our Bristol sites (Ashton Vale, Bristol and Babcock Technology Centre).

The Role

As Engineering Manager, you will be implementing the engineering across Satellite Communications to ensure delivery to the customer to meet their requirements. As part of this, an extensive modernisation programme is taking place. This role would ideally suit a highly experienced Systems Engineer looking to take the next step in their career. The Principal Systems Engineer will report to the Program Engineering Manager.

Duties include:

• Delivery of systems engineering activities in accordance with the Top-Level Engineering Management Plan, from requirements capture to delivery.
• Champion best practice Babcock processes and tailoring.
• Own all Systems Engineering deliverables for assigned work packages, including engineering plans with the technical lead, providing full life cycle support and ensuring alignment with industry-standard systems and product life cycles.
• Manage engineering scope and technical outcomes: Collaborate with Project Managers to plan and execute lifecycle engineering activities in line with contractual, regulatory, and industry standards, following Babcock’s Global Engineering Lifecycle and Program Management Plans, including cost and schedule forecasting across multiple projects.
• Technical Team Management: Manage and lead mixed discipline engineering teams, ensuring the provision of resources, guidance, and support needed is provided to allow the teams to perform effectively.

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

• Working knowledge of MoD procurement processes, project delivery practices and technical standards compliance.
• Ability to lead a team of mixed discipline engineers to deliver complex projects.
• Proven experience in Holistic Life Cycle Management with balanced competencies across the Systems Engineering Discipline.
• A good understanding of cross domain and cross boundary requirements and interface.

Qualifications for the Engineering Manager

• Degree or equivalent in Engineering.
• HNC/HND with equivalent, relevant experience is valued and welcomed.

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. You may be required to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance once in post. 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 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 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: 26/02/2026