Principal Systems Engineer

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

6/25/2025

Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Bristol or Rosyth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Up to £72,337 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF63669

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 Principal Systems Engineer at our Bristol or Rosyth site.

The role

As a Principal Systems Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The role could have you deployed on various projects including complex naval ships, marine infrastructure, ship upgrades and energy.

Day-to-day, you’ll use your expertise in naval and engineering know-how is leveraged in asset management, where our teams are trusted to deliver complex and critical programmes on a vast scale. As a preferred maritime trainer, Babcock International has been delivering world-class support for over two decades to the Royal Navy, international navies, and commercial customers both in the UK and overseas.

• Understanding customer needs and eliciting formal requirements
• Deriving and manage requirements for systems and sub-systems
• Define acceptance methodologies for system and sub-system requirements
• Manage the Assurance and Acceptance process with our customers and suppliers
• Providing Systems Engineering guidance to the wider project including various design reviews
  
  
  

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential Experience Of The Principal Systems Engineer

• Experience in Requirements elicitation and management and/or acceptance of complex systems
• Experience of using requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS)
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles
• Experience of people management
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Principal Systems Engineer

• Degree level qualification in STEM subject (Science/Technology/Engineering/Maths) or experience within Systems Engineering
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be 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 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 [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: 09/07/2025

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