Job Title:                     Engineering Design Manager

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £61,474 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF68289

Lead the Future of Engineering at Devonport

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 Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre sites.

The role

As an Engineering Design Manager within Facilities Engineering, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing part of the business undergoing significant transformation to support the engineering projects onsite at Devonport.

Facilities Engineering provides a Design Authority function for the nuclear and non-nuclear Babcock assets, including its supporting Technical Authority.  In addition, it provides a professional engineering service to the operational teams, delivering design and safety solutions to enable their programmes at Devonport.

Day to day, you’ll be responsible for managing the technical aspects of a project, from identification of the need through to handover, acting as the Technical Authority single point of contact, organising and leading resources as the project demands.   
Responsibilities will also include:
 

• Scoping and managing the technical delivery of projects throughout their lifecycle
• Supporting the Design Management Group to manage the development and delivery of complex design solutions within safety critical facilities, to quality, time and budget
• Securing, organising and leading internal and external resources as the project demands
• Ensuring that design outputs are fit for purpose and delivered within agreed budgetary and schedule constraints
• Developing and applying a structured design process in a proportionate manner that reflects conventional and nuclear facility applications

Essential experience of the Engineering Design Manager

• Have a strong technical background and demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills due to the levels of stakeholder management required by the role.
• Extensive previous experience in an engineering, construction or infrastructure environment.
• Experience of the design lifecycle and a logical approach to problem solving.
• Sound understanding of designing and substantiating solutions for safety-critical applications, ideally gained from working in a regulated industry.

Qualifications for the Design Manager

• You will hold a Degree in a STEM subject (or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience).
• Registered as a Chartered/Incorporated Engineer. If not registered then you should be able to evidence that you are working towards this, along with holding membership of a relevant professional institution.

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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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 International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [email protected] 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: 11/02/2026

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