Strategic Systems Training Infrastructure Lead

Job Title:              Strategic Systems Training Infrastructure Lead
Location:              Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    £49,943 - £61,003 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF56173

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 Strategic Systems Training Infrastructure Lead at our Clyde, Faslane site.

The role

As a Strategic Systems Training Infrastructure Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead a project to develop a training facility for strategic weapons support systems training. 

Day to day, you’ll work with our Mission Systems Dreadnought team and our Submarine Delivery Agency customers to track and communicate progress, spend and risks of the developing training facility. Your valued insight and organisation skills will help the submarine community to achieve our goals and support the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet:

• Lead on defining, costing, bounding and managing essential training infrastructure and material tasks to help deliver a training solution fit for the future.
• Organise and track progress of tasks and report progress to Dreadnought Training and SW leads.
• Highlight risks and work with the team to create plans to succeed.
• Host working groups to identify problems and highlight these to our MOD customers.

This role is full time 36 hours per week and will be based at HMNB Clyde with hybrid working from home arrangements. There will also be occasional travel required for the role.

Essential experience of the Strategic Systems Training Infrastructure Lead

• Experience with Strategic Weapons Support Systems 
• Submarine / Maritime in service support experience highly desirable
• Knowledge of project management tools and policy, project controls, life cycles, schedules and risks.
• Experience in a project management role, or as a warrant officer or above in the Navy, or as a civil servant with relevant knowledge and skills 

Qualifications for the Strategic Systems Training Infrastructure Lead

• Project Management professional body membership preferred. 
• HNC or above in Engineering / Project Management or suitably qualified by experience 

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
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. 
• Opportunity to work with innovative technology.
• Autonomy to perform the role.
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.

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.

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