Design Manager

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Engineering Design Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £59,110 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60992

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. Join us as an Engineering Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As an Engineering Design Manager, you'll manage the technical aspects of a project, from identification of the need through to handover, acting as the Technical Authority single point of contact, organising and leading resources as the project demands.

Responsibilities include:

• Scoping and managing the technical delivery of projects throughout their lifecycle
• Supporting the Design Management Group to manage the development and delivery of complex design solutions within safety critical facilities, to quality, time and budget
• Securing, organising and leading internal and external resources as the project demands
• Ensuring that design outputs are fit for purpose and delivered within agreed budgetary and schedule constraints
• Developing and applying a structured design process in a proportionate manner that reflects conventional and nuclear facility applications

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.

Essential experience:

• Strong technical background with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Sound understanding of designing and substantiating solutions for safety-critical applications, ideally from a regulated industry
• Experience of the design lifecycle and a logical approach to problem solving
• Experience in infrastructure / civil engineering projects

Qualifications:

• Degree in a STEM subject (or equivalent experience)
• Registered as a Chartered/Incorporated Engineer or evidence of working towards this, along 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.

What we offer:

• 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 allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one day's paid leave a year for volunteering
• 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. 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 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.