Group Environmental Compliance Manager

Job Title:                      Group Environmental Compliance Manager

Location:                      Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF71390

Shape a More Sustainable Future with a Global Leader in Defence and Engineering

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Group Environmental Compliance Manager.

The role

As our new Group Environmental Compliance Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of strengthening environmental assurance across a global organisation that plays a vital role in defence, aerospace, and engineering. This is a newly created role within our Group Sustainability Function, giving you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact from day one.

You’ll shape, lead, and embed environmental best practice across Babcock, helping to protect the environment while ensuring the company continues to operate responsibly and compliantly.

Day-to-day, your work will influence strategy, enhance performance, and elevate our environmental protection standards while offering you significant professional development and exposure across a diverse, international business.

• Lead environmental assurance assessments, audits, and compliance checks across UK and international sites.
• Support and enhance the Group’s approach to environmental protection.
• Provide expert environmental management guidance across the organisation.
• Develop and deliver initiatives that drive compliance and continuous improvement.
• Analyse complex environmental data and prepare insightful reporting for stakeholders.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and will operate under hybrid working arrangements.  Please be aware that regular (Monthly) UK travel will be required as well as international travel once a quarter.

Essential experience of the Group Environmental Compliance Manager:

• Extensive professional experience in environmental management and environmental legislation, with a knowledge of international regulatory requirements, and best‑practice compliance standards.
• Proven experience developing, maintaining, and auditing ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems, including conducting internal audits, supporting certification audits, and driving continual improvement initiatives.
• Proven expertise in leading site and portfolio level environmental compliance reviews, site inspections, and assurance activities including knowledge and experience in managing key environmental controls and procedures, such as waste management, pollution prevention controls, spill response, nuisance management (e.g., noise, dust, odour), water quality protection, and resource efficiency measures.
• Strong ability to manage, interrogate, and analyse complex data sets, notably in relation to environmental incident reporting.
• Excellent communication skills and experience preparing high‑quality written reports, environmental performance summaries, risk assessments, and audit findings for senior leadership.

Qualifications for the Group Environmental Compliance Manager:

• Degree in Environmental Management or a related discipline.
• Membership of ISEP or an equivalent professional body.
• Recognised internal auditor qualification.
• Advanced Environmental Management certification (e.g., NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management).

 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 – buy or sell up to one working week of leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
• Flexible working options to support work–life balance
• A dynamic working environment
• Additional benefits: Private Medical Insurance, Car Allowance, Annual Incentive Plan

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: 18/03/2026