Senior Systems Engineer

  • Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.
  • Warrington, Cheshire
  • 24/05/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Bristol or Warrington, Cheshire. Hybrid working arrangement.

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high impact systems engineering across a major long term nuclear programme.

Day to day responsibilities include:

  • Lead and direct systems engineering activities across complex programmes
  • Allocate tasks and oversee delivery from a team of systems engineers
  • Mentor and support junior engineers to grow capability across the team
  • Deliver hands on systems engineering including requirements, architecture, and integration
  • Lead and contribute to technical and design reviews with key stakeholders
Essential Experience
  • Strong systems engineering experience across requirements engineering, system architecture, integration, verification and validation
  • Leadership or mentoring experience within engineering teams
  • Experience working on complex, multidisciplinary engineering programmes
  • Reviewing technical outputs and leading engineering or design reviews
  • Application of full lifecycle systems engineering expertise
Qualifications
  • Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
  • Chartered Engineer status or working towards chartership (desirable)
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
  • Employee share scheme and shopping savings portal
  • Payment of professional fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 day special paid leave
  • Holiday trading: buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave (available February March annually)
  • 'Be Kind Day': one working day paid leave a year for volunteering (or equivalent hours)
  • Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or require reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.