Automotive Engineer - Design Engineering

About the job

Job Title: Automotive Engineer - Design Engineering
Location: UK - Flexible Location + Hybrid Working
Compensation: £ 65,000 - £75,000 + Bonus + Car Package
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54113

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 Automotive Engineer.

The Role
As an Automotive Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will oversee the design of a new vehicle that will service the British Military.

Day to day, you'll be responsible for developing, designing and implementing new vehicle design solutions in the interest of meeting current and future customer requirements.

• Developing quality requirements to underpin project delivery activities
• Creating concept designs and detailed blueprints
• Component and system development
• Testing, Analysis and Prototyping
• Managing project budgets

This role is full time / permanent. The successful candidate can be based at any compliant Babcock site within the UK, with a hybrid working from home arrangements. There is a requirement to travel to other sites.

Experience required of the Automotive Engineer

• Background in Automotive Engineering / Design
• Experience of whole vehicle design
• Knowledge of industry specific standards and regulations
• Leadership skills and experience of leading a technical team
• Proficiency in a CAD software e.g. AutoCAD, Solidworks etc

Qualifications for the Automotive Engineer

• Degree qualified in automotive engineering or other relevant subject

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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 International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.