Network Engineering Manager

Job Title: Network Engineering Manager
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits Role Type:
Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57302

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 Network Engineering Manager at our site in Corsham.

The role
As a Network Engineering Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will lead and develop a team of engineers developing and implementing new services on the UK MOD Skynet satellite.

Day-to-day, you'll:

• Manage the team in developing, testing and implementing a new service on the network
• Lead, develop and recruit team members to address changing technologies and customer requirements
• Support the development and implementation of new services and technologies, attend and lead design reviews, and ensure knowledge transfer into the team
• Support the service delivery team in agreeing service capability and specification

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 provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in the office/onsite and two days working from home.

Essential experience of the Network Engineering Manager

• Significant experience in the defence or telecoms industries
• Demonstratable experience in managing an engineering team.
• Good knowledge of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP/Internet Protocol (IP) systems and technologies, and synchronous and asynchronous communication protocols
• Good leadership and interpersonal skills

Qualifications for the Network Engineering Manager

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant Engineering Discipline
• Cisco Accreditation- CCNA or above

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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
• Employee share scheme
• 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

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: 24/05/2024