Strategic Planning Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Strategic Planning Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol
Compensation: £49,943 - £56,906 DOE + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59113

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 Strategic Planning Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre, Bristol site.

The role

As a Strategic Planning Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Day-to-day, you will use at quantitative data to assess key decisions and risks facing the submarine enterprise to support long-term strategic decision making on a multi-billion-pound portfolio, including fleet operations, boat maintenance, and supporting infrastructure.

  • Analysis of options and programming of submarine support activities for the next 80 years
  • Producing executive level UK submarine analysis and conclusions, ensuring data integrity and clarity of assumptions, in an appropriate and effective format.
  • Developing an appropriately comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the submarine enterprise, Babcock business operation, and the data analytics finding from the data analytics team
  • Providing management and monitoring of strategic decisions, issues and actions on behalf of the submarine support enterprise

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based at Babcock Technology Centre, Stoke Gifford, Bristol.

Essential experience of the Strategic Planning Engineer

  • In-service submarine engineering or wider submarine enterprise engineering experience
  • A strong sense of ownership and responsibility for the timeliness, quality, and validity of outputs
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Strong experience handling data and numbers and conducting analysis and interpretation.
  • Excellent professionalism, team working and willing to proactively engage the wider business and stakeholders to support outputs.

Qualifications for the Strategic Planning Engineer

  • Engineering Degree or strong vocational experience within a relevant field.

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.

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 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.
  • Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
  • Potential to develop skills.

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.

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