Electronics Engineering Manager

Job Title:                     Electronics Engineering Manager

Location:                     Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           From £59,000 Negotiable Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF67023

Lead the Future of Electronic Systems Delivery

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Electronics Engineering Manager at any of our main UK locations including Bristol, Devonport, Plymouth or Walsall.

The role

As an Electronics Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead a team of electronic and electrical engineering specialists who design, develop and integrate complex systems that support some of the UK’s most important defence capabilities. This is a strategic and technically dynamic role where you will guide engineering delivery, develop solutions for challenging electronic architectures and ensure systems meet demanding safety, compliance and performance requirements. You will have the opportunity to influence high profile programmes, grow engineering capability and support your own professional development in an environment that values innovation, collaboration and technical excellence.

Day to day you’ll be required to:

• Provide technical leadership to engineers delivering electronic and vehicle electrical design activities


• Oversee vetronics integration across multiple platforms and programmes


• Lead EMC planning, design controls, testing and compliance activities aligned to defence and automotive standards


• Ensure outputs follow Safe by Design, Design for Manufacture, Design for Cost and Design for Reliability and Maintainability principles


• Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistent technical delivery across programmes

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home. This can be based at any of our main UK locations including Bristol, Devonport, Plymouth or Walsall.

Essential experience of the Electronics Engineering Manager:

• Significant experience in vetronics, electronic systems or vehicle electrical engineering within defence, automotive or other regulated sectors


• Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams and delivering complex integration activities


• Strong understanding of requirements and interface management and experience in system architecture development


• Knowledge of vehicle power systems including 12V, 24V and 240V architectures, power distribution, harnessing and load analysis

Qualifications for the Electronics Engineering Manager:

• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field


• Strong understanding of defence and automotive electrical standards and frameworks such as GVA, Def Stan and MILSTD, plus EMC compliance standards

Security Clearance

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).

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

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.

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 [email protected] 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: 02/02/2026