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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74024
Shape the future of naval defence technology
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer at Ashton Vale, near Bristol.
The role
As a Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer, you’ll play a vital role at the heart of a cutting-edge Weapons Handling and Launch System programme, supporting the Royal Navy and international customers with advanced engineering solutions. This is an opportunity to apply your expertise across the full lifecycle of complex defence systems ensuring they remain effective, supportable, and mission ready.
You’ll work within our Mission Systems team, collaborating with internal experts and external partners to deliver innovative, high-impact solutions that directly contribute to national security. This role offers excellent scope for career development, leadership responsibility, and the chance to influence major engineering programmes.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Liaise with internal and external stakeholders (including attendance at Project Meetings) to support delivery of all IPS Products
Manage Project delivery to time, cost and Quality in accordance with the Project Schedule reporting any variances to the Project Manager and Engineering Manager
Identify and record all IPS related risks (hardware and software) in the project Risk Register and contribute to determining mitigating actions that can be taken
Act as peer reviewer for all IPS Reports and liaise with Chief Engineer for Assurance aspects of all published reports
Support the Integrated Product Support Manager and/or Engineering Manager, acting as the Integrated Product Support Manager deputy, representing the ILS function internally and externally. Providing guidance and reviews to peers and subordinates
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer
A good understanding of cross domain and cross boundary requirements development and interface control.
Determining and Managing Stakeholder Requirements, Life Cycle Tailoring, Verification, Validation and Transition to Operation.
Understanding of accreditation processes for COTS and bespoke software.
Qualifications for the Senior Integrated Product Support Engineer
HNC/HND within engineering or equivalent relevant experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.
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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
‘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
Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
A dynamic working environment
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: 21/07/2026
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