Communication Engineer

Beschreibung:

Job Title: Communication Engineer

Location: Bristol or Harrogate + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £45,800 - £56,000 (Dependant on experience) + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF57775

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 Lead Communication Engineer at our Bristol or Harrogate site.

The role

As a Communication Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Using your developed skills in systems design, you'll develop radio frequency technologies. From high frequency beyond line of site communications, which allow up-to-date tactical pictures of the battlespaces to be shared to allow our armed forces to make better decisions, to SW, HW, and much more.

Day-to-day, within the design team, you'll support engineering and system design delivery, collaborating with SMEs and Lead Communication Engineers, and contribute to requirements management, justification, and decomposition.

* Generate detailed specifications, designs and other technical deliverables.

* Support Operational Engineering teams with in-service systems, troubleshooting technical faults and problem management.

* Support the development, building, test and trialling of solutions and participating in Validation, Verification, Test and Acceptance activities.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home. Typically, once a month there will be a requirement to go to neighbouring Babcock sites such as Bristol, Harrogate, or Corsham. Flexibility requirements can be discussed with the hiring manager separately.

Essential experience of the Lead Communication Engineer

* Experience or transferable knowledge from similar systems, such as:

* Voice and data traffic handling, Network switching systems

* Network switching systems

* VCCS (Voice Communications Control System)

* ICCS (Integrated Communications Control System)

* System development and/or application of engineering change experience

* Awareness in application of Baseband technologies

Qualifications for the Lead Communication Engineer

* Ideally, you will have either a degree or HNC/HND or equivalent in Telecommunications or Electronic Engineering.

Applications with significant demonstrable experience are also welcome.

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 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

* 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 20/11/2024

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