Systems Engineering Discipline Lead

Job Title: Systems Engineering Discipline Lead
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary & Benefits Package
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF55354

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 Systems Engineering Discipline Lead at our Ashton House, Bristol site.

The role
As a Systems Engineering Discipline Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to head up our Systems Engineering Discipline within our Mission Systems business area. Mission Systems enables our customers to deliver their mission, through our products and solutions, using intelligence and analysis and delivering critical communication services.

Day to day, you'll be the driving force across our Systems Engineering Discipline. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering for UK Mission Systems, you will lead and manage the Systems Discipline defining its top-level strategies in both resource and capability, providing effective direction and guidance to managers across the discipline.

• Define the strategy of the Systems Engineering Discipline, while managing resources in a safe, secure, and cost-efficient manner, and ensuring consistency with the Engineering strategy.
• Be the leader that engages and inspires colleagues, promoting a positive working culture that ensures a diverse and inclusive environment that encourages continuous improvement and personal development of team members.
• Be the main contact point for all Systems Engineering Managers and be the face of the discipline for both Senior external and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure the discipline maintains it's technical capability, delivering critical skills and resources aligned to business requirements and integrated technical programmes.
• Develop and maintain the Discipline's performance metrics, procedures, processes, and systems and of a quality that delivers against Business and Customer requirements.
• Mentor and support engineers across the discipline, ensuring their career progression in line with our engineering solutions.

This role is full time, Monday to Friday and will be based at our Ashton House, Bristol site 0ne to two days per week, with hybrid working from home arrangements. There is a requirement for attending face-to-face meetings across a range of internal and customer sites across the UK.

Essential experience of the Systems Engineering Discipline Lead:

• You will be a motivated and inspirational leader that has had previous experience of people management within a complex or large organisation and have a people-centred approach that encourages communication, training, mentorship, best practice, and delivery of the teams' goals.
• You will have led and managed multi-disciplinary technical teams.
• Demonstrable experience of leading transformation and change whilst driving delivery, performance, and continuous improvement within an Engineering Discipline.
• Show financial and commercial awareness, have managed budgets and resources of large teams and programmes previously.
• Whilst this role is not a technical position, you will be experienced within the Systems Engineering Discipline and be able to demonstrate your knowledge and experience of Model Based Systems Engineering.

Qualifications for the Systems Engineering Discipline Lead:

• We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background, provided you can show the required level of leadership experience and impact. Chartered Engineer status, ideally at Fellow level, would be beneficial as validity of your engineering competence.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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 International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.