At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and integrate vehicle electronic systems, ensuring performance and reliability.
- Company: Join Babcock, a global leader in defence engineering with a commitment to safety.
- Benefits: Generous holiday allowance, matched pension scheme, and health consultations.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a culture that values diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while developing your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in automotive electronics and a willingness to learn are essential.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Design the technology that protects lives. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Automotive Electronics Technician at our Walsall site, near Birmingham, West Midlands.
The role:
- As a Lead Automotive Electronics Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a hands-on role where automotive engineering and electronics come together.
- You will work across the full lifecycle, from system integration through to testing and fault resolution.
- Along the way, you will grow your technical capability, strengthen your experience in defence engineering, and open the door to long-term development within a global organisation.
Day to day you’ll:
- Design and integrate vehicle electronic systems including power distribution, control units, communications and sensors.
- Test electronic systems in laboratory environments and on completed vehicles to ensure performance and reliability.
- Diagnose faults, resolve technical issues and improve overall system performance.
- Produce clear technical documentation and ensure systems meet regulatory, safety and military standards.
- Work closely with engineers, technicians and wider teams to deliver effective vehicle solutions.
The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Friday with an early finish on Fridays, totalling 39 hours per week. Overtime is also available.
Essential experience:
- Time served experience in automotive electronics, electrical or electronic engineering.
- Experience working as an automotive or electronic technician.
- A strong automotive technical background or hands-on vehicle electronics experience.
- Proven capability in power, control and electronic systems.
- Experience fault finding and supporting system integration activities.
Qualifications:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and NPPV2 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 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.
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.
Closing date: 04/08/2026
