Strategic Systems Engineer

We Served; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK seeks a Strategic Systems Engineer to develop and support vital submarine systems. This role involves working with MoD teams to clarify requirements and document processes in a highly regulated environment. The successful candidate will have relevant experience and qualifications, including a degree in engineering or project management. The position offers hybrid work arrangements, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer facing role within a highly regulated industry.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with proven stakeholder management.
• Ability to write and edit professional documentation.
• Experience articulating complex technical and project management requirements.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and improvement of engineering processes.
• Engage with MoD stakeholders to clarify requirements.
• Produce clear, professional documentation.
• Coordinate technical delivery across mixed professional teams.
• Represent Babcock at meetings and events.

Skills

Experience in a customer facing role within a highly regulated industry

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Ability to write and edit professional documentation

Experience articulating complex technical and project management requirements

Full UK driving licence

Education

Degree, HND or HNC in engineering or project management

Job description

Job Title: Strategic Systems Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £45,692.00 + Benefits

Role Type: <>Full time / Permanent

Engineer the systems that keep submarines safe — and shape a career that lasts.

At Babcock we’re working to create safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Strategic Systems Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role

As a Strategic Systems Engineer, you’ll help bring vital submarine systems into service and keep them operating safely through-life. You’ll work directly with MoD Project teams to understand requirements, develop robust engineering processes and documentation and deliver solutions that protect lives and strengthen national security. It’s work with purpose and it will accelerate your development across systems engineering, safety engineering and information assurance in a mission-driven environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll understand the customer’s requirements and needs and provide technical solutions, outputs, and project management in support of the projects you’re allocated.

• Lead the development and improvement of engineering processes that underpin safety, maintenance and information assurance across strategic submarine systems.
• Engage with MoD stakeholders to clarify requirements and convert them into deliverable technical outputs and plans.
• Produce clear, professional documentation from safety analyses and system procedures to process maps and reports.
• Coordinate technical delivery across mixed professional teams, tracking progress, risks and dependencies to quality, time and cost.
• Represent Babcock at meetings in the UK and at occasional UK‑US conferences, providing concise updates and insights.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home. Travel required to other sites up to twice a month (stay over).

Essential experience of the Strategic Systems Engineer

• Experience in a customer facing role within a highly regulated industry (e.g. defence, nuclear, aerospace, rail, or energy).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with proven stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated ability to write and edit professional documentation (reports, processes, procedures).
• Experience articulating complex technical and project management requirements to diverse audiences.
• Full UK driving licence.

Qualifications for the Strategic Systems Engineer

• Degree, Higher National Diploma or Higher National Certificate in engineering or project management (or equivalent experience).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Legal and Equality Statements

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: 30/01/2026