Engineering Manager

Babcock is seeking an Engineering Manager to oversee its engineering team at the Ruislip site in London. The role focuses on enhancing the availability of fleet and operational equipment in alignment with the London Fire Brigade's needs. Key responsibilities include providing leadership, ensuring compliance with engineering standards, and offering technical support. Candidates should possess experience in customer asset improvement, team leadership, and technical specification development, alongside a professional engineering qualification. The position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including generous holiday allowances and professional development opportunities.

Engineering Manager
Location:
London, GB, HA4 0QH
Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Ruislip, West London
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64400
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Manager at our Ruislip site.
The role
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will oversee the engineering team to enhance and sustain the availability of fleet and operational equipment, ensuring alignment with London Fire Brigade’s (LFB’s) operational needs and Babcock’s contractual obligations.
Day-to-day, you’ll focus on both in-build maintenance and modification requirements, while collaborating with the Asset Replacement team to integrate new assets in accordance with customer requirements. You’ll also:
Provide leadership, direction and management of the function
Ensure that engineering maintenance and inspection standards, monitor compliance and feedback learning points to all stakeholders.
Providing technical engineering support and guidance
Technical responsibility for the specification of the Customer Assets and
Ensure compliance with legislation at all times whilst building a proactive culture of continuous improvement and development
This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Ruislip.
Essential experience of the Engineering Manager:
Previous experience in driving improvements in customer assets
Experience of leading a team and being the responsible person
In a previous role would have created a continuous improvement ethos to prevent defect re-occurrence which may result in modification
Vehicle and operational equipment technical specification development experience
Modelling and forecasting equipment maintenance
Qualifications for the Engineering Manager:
Professional engineering qualification
Chartered Engineer or working towards completion
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Clearance (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 ( ).
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: 06/06/2025
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