Job Title: Project Engineering Manager
Location: Bristol, Plymouth, or Harrogate + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59800
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 Project Engineering Manager at our Bristol, or Harrogate site.
The role
As a Project Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead a team of engineers, working on an exciting international project for New Zealand through its build, integration, transition, and acceptance phases, ensuring compliance with appropriate engineering governance for the lifecycle and best practice.
Your successful delivery of this will allow armed forces a solution for delivering wideband High Frequency (HF) Beyond Line-of-Sight communications allowing up-to-date tactical pictures of the battlespaces to be shared, speeding up the ‘sense, decide, effect’ for armed forces.
Day-to-day, you’ll oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of all engineering activities, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and in line with the project lifecycle. Additionally, you’ll ensure that all processes and deliverables meet the highest quality standards, aligning with product quality and safety goals. You will also:
- Ensure technical outcomes are assessed, planned and delivered against requirements in accordance with a robust Integration, Test, Evaluation and Acceptance (ITEA) strategy.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and drive initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of engineering operations.
- Track and report on engineering activity in support of project performance indicators (PIs) and maintain alignment of outputs with Head of Department, Programme and Project Managers.
This is a full-time position (37 hours per week) with hybrid working arrangements, allowing for two to three days in the office/on-site and days working from home. The role includes travel to New Zealand over the next 12 months for integration activities, as well as travel to UK sites.
Essential experience of the Project Engineering Manager
- Demonstrable systems engineering management and experience of delivering a System of System.
- Full Lifecycle engineering management experience.
- Software & Hardware integration experience.
Qualifications for the Project Engineering Manager
- Degree or equivalent in Engineering, HNC/HND with equivalent, relevant experience is valued and welcomed.
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 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
- 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 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.
Closing date: 25/11/2024
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