Senior Systems Engineer

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be deployed on exciting projects, including complex shipbuilding and design for platforms such as Arrowhead 140. Your work will help define and understand problems, capture stakeholder needs, and translate them into system and sub-system requirements that shape the future of naval engineering.

This is an opportunity to influence major defence programmes, ensuring compliance and delivering solutions that matter. You’ll join a collaborative team that values innovation and offers clear pathways for career progression.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Understand customer needs and elicit formal requirements.
• Derive and manage requirements for systems and sub-systems.
• Ensure compliance is maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Define acceptance methodologies for system and sub-system requirements.
• Manage the Assurance and Acceptance process with customers and suppliers.

This is a full-time, permanent position based at one of our key locations- Bristol Business Park (Stoke Gifford, Bristol), HMNB Devonport (Plymouth, Devon), or Rosyth (Fife, Scotland). The role follows a hybrid working pattern, with 2 days per week in the office. You will work 37 hours per week.

Do you have experience in Systems engineering?, * Experience in requirements elicitation and management and/or acceptance of complex systems.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles., * Degree-level qualification in a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) or equivalent industry/armed forces experience., The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Pulled from the full job description

• Annual leave
• Employee assistance programme
• Company pension, 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.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Systems Engineer at one of our Babcock sites., 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.