Graduate employer profile

Babcock. trusted to deliver™

Babcock is the UK’s leading engineering support services company, with revenues of £2.9bn in 2010 and an order book in excess of £12bn.

Managing over £40billion worth of vital assets, we deliver critical support across sectors as diverse as transport, energy, defence, telecommunications and education.

In this, our 27,000 skilled staff display an extraordinary wealth of expertise – designing, building, managing, operating and maintaining assets essential to many key public services, both in the UK and overseas.

As leading support partners to the British Forces, we’re involved in everything from training fighter pilots and engineers to maintaining warships, refitting submarines and building aircraft carriers.

We design, build and manage baggage handling systems for the world’s airports, and provide infrastructure, networking and transmission solutions for the global communications industry.

We’re working with hundreds of schools to help learners, teachers and communities fulfil their potential, and with energy companies to deliver high voltage power across the country.

We enable the emergency services to maintain peak efficiency by looking after their vehicles, equipment, facilities and training. In the nuclear sector, our in-house expertise delivers complex solutions across every specialist area.

We also work with major public and private sector clients to manage their estates, buildings and assets. Elsewhere, we’re the largest conventional rail track renewals company in the country and the UK’s largest independent provider of vocational training.

In everything we do, our market-leading reputation rests on one key fact: Babcock is a partner that can be trusted to deliver™.

Careers at Babcock

First and foremost, Babcock people are creative thinkers, innovators, problemsolvers. Whether engineering or businessfocused, we value individuals who can combine core professional skills with the imagination to approach complex challenges from original angles.

This year we’re looking to recruit up to 100 graduates into a wide range of Engineering & Technical roles and a number of Business Support positions, UK-wide. Every role offers the scope to develop your skills on multimillion pound projects, and have a decisive say in setting your own direction.

Engineering & Technical Roles

The UK’s largest engineering support services company, we’re driven by a keen instinct for innovation. So it’s vital that we recruit, develop, reward and inspire the people whose ideas, ambitions and energy constantly refresh our competitive edge.

Business Support Roles

Here the emphasis is on your commercial and business management potential. Graduates gain experience with different teams across our business functions, while also acquiring specific skills that will help them decide their career paths.

For all positions we require an expected 2:2 or above, either in a relevant engineering or discipline, or in a business, management, economics or finance related one. We are also looking for qualities that suggest leadership potential – such as a strong customer focus and business outlook, an enthusiasm for new ideas and the ability to inspire others.

Babcock International Group fact file

Overall number of graduate vacancies
Up to 100

Sector(s)
Engineering

Region(s)
England - East Midlands
England - East of England
England - Greater London
England - North East
England - North West
England - South East
England - South West
England - West Midlands
England - Yorkshire and the Humber
Wales
Scotland
United States
Rest of the world

Organisation locations
We have sites and offices throughout the UK, from Scotland to the South West

Areas of specialisation
built environment, defence, energy – power generation, marine, rail, telecommunications, utilities

Number of employees
27000

Annual turnover
Circa £3 billion in 2010

Contact for enquiries
Graduate Recruitment Coordinator
01623 684134
graduates@babcock.co.uk

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