Job Description
Job Title: Project Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements + Travel to other sites
Compensation: Up to £55,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64171
Shape the future of defence engineering and deliver projects that make a real difference
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Engineer at the Babcock Technology Centre near Stoke Gifford, Bristol.
As a Project Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering engineering solutions that support critical land defence platforms across their full lifecycle. Working within our Design and Supportability team, you will balance technical engineering expertise with project management responsibility, helping to solve complex challenges, improve equipment performance, and ensure the highest standards of safety and reliability.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Conduct defect investigations and perform root cause analysis on in-service equipment issues
- Produce engineering design packs, including CAD modelling, analysis and technical reports
- Manage engineering change requests and assess design impacts across platforms
- Collaborate with internal teams, suppliers and MOD stakeholders to deliver project outcomes
- Monitor project progress, manage budgets and timelines, and report to senior stakeholders
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of Defence Support Group sites on a weekly basis such as: Andover, Warminster, Donnington and Bovington alongside home working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Project Engineer:
- Demonstrating a strong understanding of engineering standards, materials and manufacturing processes
- Applying knowledge of engineering practices and techniques in a practical environment
- Delivering projects with responsibility for timelines, cost and quality
- Solving problems creatively with a high level of attention to detail
- Bringing experience from defence, or a similar highly regulated engineering environment is desirable
Qualifications for the Project Engineer:
- Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline
- Certified Engineer, or working towards certification
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 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
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: 09/06/2026
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