Engineering Capability Manager

Job Title: Engineering Capability Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF69628

Shape the Future of Engineering Excellence

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 Engineering Capability Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Engineering Capability Manager, you'll be at the heart of shaping the future of engineering within one of the UK's most critical defence and infrastructure environments. This is a unique opportunity to lead the development of our engineering organisation - driving capability, innovation, and continuous improvement across people, processes, and tools.

Day-to-day, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our engineering teams are equipped to deliver complex, large-scale projects that support national defence and nuclear safety. Your work will directly contribute to the design, construction, and maintenance of nuclear and conventional submarines and facilities - making a lasting impact on national security and your own career development. 

• Leading the development of engineering capability, including recruitment, succession planning, and graduate programmes
• Overseeing the implementation and improvement of engineering processes, tools, and training
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives across people, process, and technology
• Representing Devonport Engineering across sector and global teams
• Advising on the development and deployment of BIM toolsets and learning from experience frameworks

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Engineering Capability Manager

• Leading technical teams in large-scale, complex facility design projects
• Designing and justifying nuclear-classified engineering solutions
• Managing engineering capability development across people, processes, and tools
• Applying engineering design and safety practices across multiple disciplines
• Planning and managing engineering projects, including budgeting and specification

Qualifications for the Engineering Capability Manager

• A degree in an appropriate engineering discipline
• Chartered Engineer status, registered with the Engineering Council

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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 )

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.

Babcock International

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 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: 25/11/2025

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