Engineering Manager – Defence
Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73379
Lead brilliant engineering. Shape national safety. Build a career that matters.
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 senior leadership role shapes engineering outcomes, protects product integrity and upholds the highest standards of safety and compliance.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities
- Lead the technical delivery of engineering scope, ensuring work is robust, safe and compliant with all standards
- Manage and develop multidisciplinary engineering teams, setting direction and enabling high performance
- Own design and maintenance baselines, change control and engineering governance
- Assure product quality, safety and regulatory compliance across all engineering activities
- Control engineering costs, risks and technical outcomes in line with programme objectives
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
- Professional membership with chartered status
Security clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain a Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What we offer
- 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 employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave annually (open February‑March)
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take a paid leave day a year (or equivalent hours) for volunteering activities
Additional information
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.
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