Lead Automotive Electronics Engineer

Job Title:                     Lead Automotive Electronics Engineer

Location:                     Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF72257

Design the technology that protects lives

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Automotive Electronics Technician at our Walsall site, near Birmingham, West Midlands.

The role

As an Lead Automotive Electronics Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a hands on role where automotive engineering and electronics come together. You will work across the full lifecycle, from system integration through to testing and fault resolution. Along the way, you will grow your technical capability, strengthen your experience in defence engineering, and open the door to long term development within a global organisation.

Day to day you’ll:

• Design and integrate vehicle electronic systems including power distribution, control units, communications and sensors
• Test electronic systems in laboratory environments and on completed vehicles to ensure performance and reliability
• Diagnose faults, resolve technical issues and improve overall system performance
• Produce clear technical documentation and ensure systems meet regulatory, safety and military standards
• Work closely with engineers, technicians and wider teams to deliver effective vehicle solutions

The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Friday with an early finish on Fridays, totalling 39 hours per week. Overtime is also available.

Essential experience of the Lead Automotive Electronics Engineer:

• Time served experience in automotive electronics, electrical or electronic engineering
• Experience working as an automotive or electronic technician
• A strong automotive technical background or hands on vehicle electronics experience
• Proven capability in power, control and electronic systems
• Experience fault finding and supporting system integration activities

Qualifications for the Lead Automotive Electronics Engineer:

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and NPPV2 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 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 04/08/2026