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Job Title: Principal Supportability Engineer

Location: Corsham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF68645

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 Principal Supportability Engineer.

As a Principal Supportability Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll oversee a small team delivering, supporting, and enhancing a complex communications system. Your focus will be on conducting LSA and dynamic support modelling to optimise the overall support solution.

Day-to-day, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Report directly to the Supportability Manager and contribute full-time to the programme’s delivery objectives.
• Collaborate with internal and external engineering design teams to integrate supportability considerations early in the design phase.
• Ensure the system remains adaptable to ongoing changes while maintaining supportability standards.
• Utilise a proprietary Logistics Support Analysis Record (LSAR) to capture and manage all supportability data.
• Develop and deliver a comprehensive through-life support solution based on accurate and timely data.

This role is full time working 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements, mainly based on site at Hawthorn, Wiltshire.

• Solid background in Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) and Integrated Product Support (IPS), ideally with delivery experience for UK MOD programmes.
• Proven capability in supporting complex systems and equipment across their operational lifecycle.
• Skilled in conducting Supportability Analysis while leading teams to meet contractual requirements and performance standards.
• Experienced in authoring and managing Supportability Case Reports for both “In-Service” and change work packages, ensuring compliance and traceability throughout the support solution.

• Degree or equivalent in Engineering. HNC/HND with equivalent, relevant experience is valued and welcomed.

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).

• 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.

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: 13/01/2026