Requirements Manager

Job Title: Requirements Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol / Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59388

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 Requirements Manager at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role:
As a Requirements Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be working on an exciting new defence project delivering the next generation of submarine weapon handling system.

Reporting to the Weapons Handling Loading Systems Lead, and with the support of Babcock's System Engineering Discipline, you will lead a small team of System Engineers

Day-to-day, you'll:

• Develop requirements elicitation, change, acceptance, and non-conformance processes with the customer to create requirement baselines in support of engineering milestone reviews and configuration management activity
• Plan, develop, conduct and maintain requirement throughout the engineering lifecycle whist reporting on requirement status and maturity
• Collaborate with the System Architect to align requirements and architecture
• Collaborate with the Test and Integration team and manage gathering and review of Verification and Validation evidence
• Set standards for requirement quality and check requirement-related work specifying, configuring, and managing access to the requirements management database (DOORS Classic or DOORS Next Generation)

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements (this is dependent on demands and projects of work).

Essential experience of the Requirements Manager

• An understanding of requirements management theory, matched with practical experience developing complex requirement sets
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• A proven System Engineering background with exposure to the engineering design lifecycle, particularly for narrow-market waterfall acquisition projects
• Experience with International Business Machines DOORS Classic and/or DOORS Next Generation software

Qualifications for the Requirements Manager

• Engineering degree or equivalent
• Able to attain or already a Chartered Engineer

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 up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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
• A dynamic working environment

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.

Closing Date: 16/09/2024