Engineering Manager
// Role Summary
Lead the engineering strategy for the UK's next-generation submarine fleet as an Engineering Manager in Barrow-In-Furness. Influence design, build, and supportability, acting as Babcock's senior engineering representative.
// Key Responsibilities
- Influence design, build, and long-term availability of future submarine fleet.
- Act as Babcock's senior engineering representative.
- Collaborate with major industry partners and defence stakeholders.
- Lead engineering supportability activities and represent Babcock at forums.
- Provide expert advice on submarine maintenance and availability.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Shape the future of the Royal Navy's Next Generation Submarines as an Engineering Manager at Babcock in Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria. This is a role out of the ordinary, where you will play a pivotal part in influencing the design, build, supportability, and long-term availability of the UK's future submarine fleet. Working at the heart of one of the country's most significant defence programmes, you will act as Babcock's senior engineering representative.
You will collaborate with major industry partners and defence stakeholders, ensuring the insights of in-service maintainers are embedded into future submarine capability. This full-time, permanent role offers hybrid working arrangements.
What You'll Do
- Lead engineering supportability activities across future submarine programmes.
- Influence senior stakeholders and industrial partners to ensure engineering support considerations remain central to programme decisions.
- Represent Babcock at technical, programme, and customer engagement forums.
- Provide expert advice and guidance on submarine maintenance, support, and availability requirements.
- Collaborate with defence, customer, and industry partners to drive effective engineering outcomes and future capability development.
Key Experience and Qualifications
- Significant engineering leadership experience within complex, highly regulated engineering environments.
- Extensive experience planning and/or delivering submarine maintenance activities within a waterfront setting.
- In-depth knowledge of nuclear submarine base or deep maintenance, including product safety and assurance.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders across multiple organisations.
- Experience working within industrial partner organisations and complex programme environments.
- Degree-level qualification in an engineering discipline or equivalent professional engineering experience.
- Demonstrable engineering leadership background within complex engineering programmes.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance.
What We Offer
- Up to £80,000 depending on experience.
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance.
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations.
- Employee share scheme and shopping savings portal.
- Payment of Professional Fees.
- Special paid leave for reservists.
- Holiday trading options.
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering.
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme.
About Babcock
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working to make a difference. Your work will contribute to products and services essential to national security and public infrastructure, from initial design to final decommissioning. We are committed to building an inclusive culture and are happy to discuss flexible working.