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Design Manager

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Design Manager

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid:

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Provides team management and leadership to deliver engineering activities to required technical scope and quality for - Low complexity engineering multi discipline projects or A single medium complexity engineering project. Ensures the application of engineering processes, resources and tools in line with Babcock policy to achieve the project or program technical outcomes. Individual may have allocation of a Technical Independent role for another project and or product,service

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Job Title: Design Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: From £57,300 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74317

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Design Manager, you’ll be responsible for the technical delivery of design projects, acting as the Technical Authority throughout the project lifecycle. You will ensure that design solutions are developed, validated and delivered in line with safety, quality, time and cost requirements.

Day-to-day, you’ll coordinate resources, maintain robust design processes, and support the delivery of complex solutions within a safety-critical environment. Your work will directly contribute to vital defence programmes, giving you the opportunity to make a real difference while developing your leadership capability and technical expertise.

Acting as the Technical Authority, ensuring designs are developed, verified and delivered across the project lifecycle
Managing the technical delivery of design projects, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, time and cost requirements
Coordinating resources to support effective and efficient design delivery
Maintaining structured and compliant design processes, ensuring governance and regulatory standards are consistently met
Supporting the delivery of complex, safety-critical solutions through validation, planning, and stakeholder collaboration

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Design Manager

Demonstrable experience managing technical delivery within design-led projects
Strong understanding of design processes, lifecycle management, and governance
Experience working within regulated, safety-critical environments such as defence, marine, nuclear, or aerospace
Proven ability to lead teams and coordinate multi-disciplinary resources
Experience managing design assurance, risk, and compliance requirements

Qualifications for the Design Manager

Degree qualified in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
Chartered status (or working towards) with a recognised professional institution - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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: 25/06/2026

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