Infrastructure Maintenance Legionella Manager

Job Title:                     Infrastructure Maintenance Legionella Manager

Location:                     Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation:           £59,000 - £76,300

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF70777

Lead the Future of Safety and Asset Reliability at Clyde

About Us

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Infrastructure Maintenance Legionella Manager at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

The role

As an Infrastructure Maintenance Legionella Manager, you’ll take a pivotal leadership role in safeguarding critical defence infrastructure by ensuring the effective delivery of Legionella management across the Clyde estate. This is an opportunity to shape the reliability, safety and performance of essential assets that support national security. You’ll guide a team of specialists and engineers, influence long‑term asset strategies, and contribute to a mission that genuinely matters.

This role offers a platform for significant professional growth — from developing your leadership capability to deepening your expertise in asset management within one of the UK’s most complex engineering environments.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of Team Coaches, Specialists and Engineers delivering Legionella safety across the Clyde estate.
• Oversee all Legionella management activities within your allocated area (e.g., Faslane or Coulport).
• Collaborate with cross‑functional departments to implement and enhance the Asset Management Strategy.
• Ensure work is effectively programmed to prevent asset failure and maintain operational readiness.
• Provide coaching, guidance and support to ensure business objectives and customer expectations are met.

You’ll be working full-time, Monday to Thursday, 36 hours per week, based on site at our HMNB Clyde site.

Essential experience of the Infrastructure Maintenance Legionella Manager:

• Extensive experience in Legionella management.
• Knowledge of engineering standards, including SFG20 for Planned Preventive Maintenance.
• Understanding of asset management practices and standards such as ISO 55001.
• Experience working with Safe Systems of Work and relevant Health, Safety & Environment legislation.
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills across multiple organisations (e.g., Royal Navy, Royal Marines, MOD, Babcock).

Qualifications for the Infrastructure Maintenance Legionella Manager:

• Relevant engineering or water safety qualifications (as per Legionella management requirements).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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: 21/01/2026

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