Engineering Delivery Manager

We Served; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - GBP 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm in Plymouth seeks an Engineering Design Manager to lead significant infrastructure projects for the UK Defence. The role involves managing project delivery, ensuring high standards of safety and compliance. Candidates must have a strong technical background and relevant engineering experience, with a degree in a STEM subject. This position offers hybrid working arrangements and a variety of employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefits

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Qualifications

• Strong technical engineering background with excellent communication skills.
• Extensive experience in engineering, construction, or infrastructure.
• Experience across the design lifecycle and in regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery throughout project lifecycles.
• Scope and manage engineering projects across all stages.
• Ensure design outputs meet budget and schedule requirements.

Skills

Technical engineering background

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving skills

Education

Degree in a STEM subject

Job description

Job Title: Engineering Design Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67752

Lead Complex Infrastructure Design That Shapes the Future of UK Defence

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 Engineering Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Engineering Design Manager, you’ll play a critical role in delivering some of the UK’s most significant and complex engineering infrastructure projects. These projects form part of a major multi‑year investment programme designed to support the future requirements of the Ministry of Defence, including new berthing and docking facilities essential to Astute‑class submarine maintenance.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll lead technical delivery throughout a project’s lifecycle, ensuring that designs for safety‑critical facilities are robust, compliant and delivered to the highest standards of quality.

• Scope and manage the technical delivery of engineering projects across all lifecycle stages.
• Support the Design Management Group in developing and delivering complex design solutions within safety‑critical facilities.
• Secure, organise and lead internal and external resources to meet project demands.
• Ensure design outputs are fit for purpose and aligned with budgetary and schedule requirements.
• Develop and apply structured design processes appropriate to both conventional and nuclear facility applications.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Engineering Design Manager

• Strong technical engineering background with excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Extensive previous experience in an engineering, construction or infrastructure environment.
• Experience working across the design lifecycle and applying logical problem‑solving approaches.
• Sound understanding of designing and substantiating solutions for safety‑critical applications.
• Experience operating within regulated industries is advantageous.

Qualifications for the Engineering Design Manager

• Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent experience.
• Registered as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer, or actively working towards registration with membership of a relevant professional institution.

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 [e-mail] 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: 16/02/2026

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