Professional Head of Design & Engineering Compliance

Blantyre, Scotland, United Kingdom

7/3/2025

Job Title: Railway Civil Engineering Professional Head

Location: Scotland, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits including car allowance

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64694

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 Civil Engineering Professional Head at our Hamilton site.

The role

As a Civil Engineering Professional Head, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will ensure compliance to regulations for the civil engineering function within railway track renewal and new build projects.

Day-to-day, you’ll review standards and produce internal standards for application within engineering function.

• Conducting briefings
• Auditing projects for compliance
• Provide guidance on civil engineering queries when required
  
  
  

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time 35 hours per week and is mostly remote with ad hoc requirements to be on site at Hamilton or one of our other sites, including Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, London etc. with expenses paid.

Essential Experience Of The Civil Engineering Professional Head

• Extensive experience in railway industry
• Extensive knowledge of civil engineering
• Experience in a professional head / technical authority role
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Civil Engineering Professional Head

• Civil engineering chartership and / or a degree in civil or structural engineering
  
  
  

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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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: 17/07/25