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Job Title: Senior Reliability and Maintainability Engineer
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65403
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 Senior Reliability and Maintainability Engineerat our Hawthorn, Wiltshire site.
The Role
As a Senior Reliability and Maintainability Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working as part of the prestigious Skynet programme, the UK’s secure military satellite communications system, you’ll have a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity, performance, and continuous improvement of mission-critical systems that support UK defence operations globally.
Day-to-day, you’ll lead and evolve our defect and reliability management processes through DRACAS (Data Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System).
- Lead the DRACAS process across the Skynet programme, ensuring timely and accurate defect reporting, analysis, and resolution.
- Collaborate with engineering, quality, and project teams to identify root causes and implement corrective/preventive actions.
- Maintain and develop DRACAS tools and databases, ensuring data integrity and traceability.
- Generate and present reliability and trend analysis reports to internal stakeholders and the customer.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and reliability excellence across the programme.
- Support audits, reviews, and customer engagements related to reliability and defect management.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with predominantly working from home, however you will be required on site once a week to access data.
Essential Experience Of The Senior Reliability And Maintainability Engineer
- Experience managing DRACAS or similar defect tracking systems in a complex engineering environment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret technical data and trends.
- Experience of a broad range of Maintenance Management Systems e.g SAP, IFS, JAMES, GoldESP.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Qualifications For The Senior Reliability And Maintainability Engineer
- Minimum HND or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
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. 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
- A relocation package for those outside of the region
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: 03/07/2025
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