SLTP Strategic Planning Engineer

As a Strategic Planning Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Looking at the whole enterprise of data that supports the big strategic decision making, on multimillion billion pound decision making, in terms of infrastructure and fleet operations.

Day-to-day, you'll carry out analysis, programme modelling outputs and scenarios, assess risks and decisions required whilst presenting them in a manageable format. You'll also provide senior stakeholders sound data to ensure they make the correct decision. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing an appropriately comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the submarine enterprise, Babcock business operation and the data analytics finding from the Strategic Long-Term Planning (SLTP) data analytics team


• Analysing SLTP data analytics outputs, feasibility studies, business cases, and resource forecasts to present executive visuals and associated strategic conclusion and recommendations


• Establishing information needs for analysis and proactively engage stakeholders to ensure it is secured


• Presenting and explaining information outputs to various levels and functions within the organisation


This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 4 days in the office/onsite and 1 day working from home.

Essential experience of the Strategic Planning Engineer:

• UK 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 to support outputs.


• Strong IT skills


Qualifications for the Strategic Planning Engineer:

• Relevant engineering degree or strong relevant academic or vocational background


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


• 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.


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