Capability Manager

Job Title:             Capability Manager
Location:             Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:   Up to £70,000 + Benefits
Role Type:          Full time / Permanent
Role ID:              SF58876

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 Capability Manager at our Bristol site.

The role
As a Capability Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The Submarine Operations Centre is a key capability delivered by a joint Babcock and Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) team. It leverages their combined knowledge, experience, and evolving digital tools to enhance the management of submarine maintenance requirements and the design of maintenance projects, supporting effective operations by waterfront project and delivery teams.

Day-to-day, you’ll be embedded with the SDA’s Submarine Platform Managers as a technical problem solver to ensure smooth delivery to the client.

• Provide and present complex programme and engineering data analysis to enable collaborative decision-making, driving enterprise performance improvement
• Lead critical Submarine Operations Centre planning and co-ordination activities, identifying issues and actions affecting certainty of delivery of the submarine programme
• Provide critical advice to key stakeholders whilst being supported by Project and Engineering teams conducting key engineering and programme analysis

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home. You'll be required to travel to Plymouth, Devon occasionally.

Essential experience of the Capability Manager

• Knowledge of submarine in-service support arrangements
• Proven senior stakeholder management experience
• Full project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out
• Experience in a project management position
• Ability to champion high performance and inspire others 

Qualifications for the Capability Manager

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering / project / construction management or equivalent experience
• Chartership or demonstrated route to chartership in project management or engineering

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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 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: 28/05/2025

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