Systems Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Strategic Systems Engineers
Location: Bristol
Compensation: £39,408
Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Contract
Role ID: SF 50697

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Strategic Systems Engineer at our Bristol site.

The role
As a Strategic Systems Engineers you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. As an engineer within the Mission Systems team, you will work within the Submarine Support Engineering (SSE) Directorate, a centre of excellence for Babcock's professional engineering capability. You'll be supporting Naval programmes while proactively improving arrangements, and ultimately upholding the UK's Continuous at Sea Deterrent.

Day to day, you'll be part of the Ballistic Submarine programme, working on the largest project in UK Defence, and collaborating with counterparts throughout the business enterprise. Playing a vital part in the development of solutions to assure the availability of the SSBN fleet and aiding the delivery of Dreadnought submarines into service.
* Working closely with the Ministry of Defence Project Teams, aiding them with in the areas of Systems Integration, Safety, and the Change Management of SSBN systems.
* In collaboration with the Project team, revising essential documentation detailing their engineering processes and procedures.
* Providing crucial engineering knowledge and judgement on undertaken work.

Essential experience of the Strategic Systems Engineers
* Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
* Understanding of life cycle management, from concept through to disposal.
* Working within engineering teams in the defence or aerospace environment or having worked previously in the MOD or Royal Navy.
* Operating independently when required.

A full-time (36 hours a week) hybrid role allowing work from the office or from home with opportunities for travel in UK.

Qualifications for the Strategic Systems Engineers
* Must be qualified to a minimum of Level 6 in a STEM discipline (e.g., Mechanical, Electrical, Marine, System, Data Management or Mathematics). Experience in lieu of formal education will be considered.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level 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 the majority of 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

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International
For over 130 years 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.

Closing date: 25/04/2023