Job Title: Engineering Manager – Defence
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73379
Lead brilliant engineering. Shape national safety. Build a career that matters.
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 Engineering Manager – Defence at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Engineering Manager – Defence, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead and inspire a highly skilled engineering team, providing technical authority, direction and assurance across complex, safety-critical programmes. This is a senior leadership role where your decisions shape engineering outcomes, protect product integrity and uphold the highest standards of safety and compliance.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Leading the technical delivery of engineering scope, ensuring work is robust, safe and compliant with all standards
- Managing and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams, setting direction and enabling high performance
- Owning design and maintenance baselines, change control and engineering governance
- Assuring product quality, safety and regulatory compliance across all engineering activities
- Controlling engineering costs, risks and technical outcomes in line with programme objectives
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager – Defence
- 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 for the Engineering Manager – Defence
- Engineering or science degree
- Professional membership with chartered status
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 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
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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: 19/05/2026
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