Head of Engineering - Satellite Communications 60241

Job Title: Head of Engineering Satellite Communications
Location: UK Flexible weekly travel to Bristol and/or Corsham Wiltshire
Compensation: Competitive Salary Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60241

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together and if you join us you can play your part as the Head of Engineering at our Corsham site.

The Role
As the Head of Engineering youll have a role thats out of the ordinary. Youll be part of an international company thats continually innovating. Our aspirations are big and youll help make them possible.

Daytoday youll be leading the delivery of engineering activity on the Skynet 6 Service Delivery Wrap (SDW) programme including providing leadership to the engineering team to deliver a range of new and modified subsystems end to end services covering a range of Military and Commercial technologies and software.

• Reporting to the Engineering Director youll also be part of a multimillionpound programme of technology change.
• Leadership of the Skynet Service Delivery Wrap engineering team.
• Responsible for ensuring the engineering team has the right capacity and capability to meet the needs of the programme.
• Working closely with Project leads to understand their engineering requirements
• To ensure that the engineering needs for the whole product lifecycle are met.
• Represent Babcock at stakeholder meetings Governance forums and Design Reviews.

This role is full time 37 hours per week and requires travel to Corsham alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Head of Engineering

• Engineering senior engineering leadership expertise in a related Communications or Networks field
• Experience in senior engineering leadership roles.
• Demonstrable experience of project delivery on large and/or complex engineering projects.
• The ability to develop talent and mentor staff to meet our future requirements.
• Problem solving capability and the ability to simplify prioritise and resolve issues using data as well as good judgement.
• Able to communicate complex concepts and technologies clearly and digestibly to nonspecialists from the most junior colleague to the most senior Customer.
• Ability to motivate teams to deliver great output on time and on cost whilst creating a high performing team culture.
• Ability to apply systems engineering principles in a manner that is tailored to the work in hand driving for optimal compliance with requirements.

Qualifications for the Head of Engineering

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or equivalent professional accreditation/ experience.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. However you will be able to start on Security Check (SC) security clearance with the view to obtain Developed Vetting (DV)

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 atUnited Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels GOV (www).

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 10days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish 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 days 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 emailwith the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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