Babcock International Group partners with EngineeringUK

By Peter Davison

23 August 2023

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Defence contractor Babcock International Group has entered into a three-year partnership with EngineeringUK

Defence contractor Babcock International Group has entered into a three-year partnership with EngineeringUK as part of its commitment to inspire and attract the next generation of future talent into STEM careers.

The firm – which has sites in Warminster, Cheltenham, Bristol, Tewkesbury, Taunton, and Devonport – delivers projects on behalf of the UK military and its allies.

The partnership will focus on all aspects of Early Careers, from STEM activities in primary and secondary schools, as well as colleges, right through to apprenticeships and graduate roles in all disciplines including engineering and technology, business operations and environmental management.

Babcock’s CEO, David Lockwood, said: “We’re delighted to be partnering with EngineeringUK.

“As a leading defence business, we are already working on some of the biggest industrial, digital and environmental challenges in the world and the assets and programmes we manage can often span decades, so it is crucial we start engaging at an early age.

“Collaborating in this way will ensure we don’t just secure the future talent that our business needs but that we have the best people, with the best skills working in an inclusive, diverse and engaging culture.”

CEO of EngineeringUK, Dr Hilary Leevers, added “We’re thrilled to welcome Babcock to our community of Corporate Members. Our Members play a fundamental part in inspiring the next generation and helping to deliver impactful engineering focused STEM engagement activities and opportunities at a national and strategic level. We look forward to working with them to enable more young people from all backgrounds to be informed, inspired and progress into engineering and technology.”

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Babcock already has an active STEM programme supported by over 550 trained STEM Ambassadors. The partnership will see Babcock actively working across EngineeringUK’s partnership forum, contributing to Early Career’s research papers on STEM engagement, apprenticeship and graduate programmes, as well clearer insight into the barriers to entry in areas like engineering and technology.

EngineeringUK is the leading not-for-profit organisation focusing on enabling more young people from all backgrounds to be informed, inspired and progress into engineering and technology.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.