Capability Manager

Job Title:
Capability Manager

Location:
Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:
Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

Shape the future of nuclear safety and workforce capability

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Capability Manager at our Rosyth site.

This is a unique opportunity to help deliver one of the UK's most important defence infrastructure programmes. Working on the new Contingent Docking Facility at Rosyth, you'll play a central role in ensuring the right people, with the right skills and experience, are in place to safely support nuclear operations. You'll be at the forefront of maintaining nuclear competence standards, supporting regulatory compliance, and helping to build the capability needed for current and future programmes.

As a Capability Manager, you'll lead and develop the organisation's nuclear competence and capability framework, ensuring workforce readiness, regulatory compliance, and the safe delivery of nuclear programmes. This is a highly visible role where you'll work with senior leaders, engineering teams, safety specialists and regulators to shape long-term capability planning and manage safety-critical competence risks. It's an exciting opportunity to influence strategic decision-making while contributing to projects that support national security and public safety.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Manage and maintain the nuclear competence and capability framework.
• Manage a small team of staff and integrate with the wider team managing LC 10, 12, and 36.
• Supporting regulatory inspections, audits and assurance activities.
• Advising senior leaders on capability, succession planning and competence risks.
• Collaborating with engineering, nuclear safety, HR and workforce planning teams to maintain workforce readiness.
• Ensuring suitably qualified and experienced personnel are identified and authorised for safety-critical activities.

This is a full-time role based rid working patterns are available. Working hours are Monday to Thursday.

• Proven experience managing competence, capability, authorisation and SQEP (Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel) frameworks within the nuclear sector or another highly regulated, safety-critical environment.
• Knowledge of nuclear regulatory requirements, compliance obligations and competence management principles
  -Desirable
• Experience supporting regulatory inspections, audits and compliance activities, including knowledge of Licence Condition 12 (LC12) requirements - Desirable
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage safety-critical workforce capability and support the mitigation of operational risk.

• Degree qualified or significant experience in similar role.

The successful candidate must be UK sole national and 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 -  ().

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday…