Job Title: Resource Coordinator
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £37,000 - £42,000
Role Type: Full Time/Fixed Term Contract until December 2026
Role ID: SF67180
Shape the future of defence and engineering with Babcock
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Resource Coordinator at Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Resource Coordinator, you’ll be at the heart of our Estates Delivery function, ensuring the right people, subcontractors, and equipment are in place to support our Maintenance Delivery Teams. This is a dynamic and impactful role where your decisions directly influence the success of planned and reactive maintenance across our Clyde site.
You’ll be managing a large and diverse team, optimising labour deployment, and helping deliver over 45,000 maintenance tasks annually. It’s a fantastic opportunity to grow your leadership skills, work with cutting-edge resource planning tools, and contribute to a mission that matters.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
* To work with Delivery teams to manage the labour demand and supply profile the most efficient use of resource
* Coordinating the appointment of industrial, non-industrial employees to support delivery based on analysis of their skills and experience
* Managing employees across industrial and non-industrial roles through day to day management of absence, performance, leave, learning and development records.
* Collaborating with Planning and Delivery teams to optimise resource usage
* Promoting a safety culture, continuous improvement and compliance with all company Health, Safety and Environmental legislation in line with ISO standards.
* Using ERP systems to benchmark and implement effective resource strategies.
You'll be working full-time, 36 hours per week (Monday – Thursday). This role is a fixed term contract (Maternity Cover) until December 2026.
Essential experience of the Resource Coordinator:
* Proven experience in resource allocation and workload balancing
* Strong organisational and communication skills with data-driven decision-making
* Ability to lead and manage across multiple stakeholder groups
* Understanding of contract scope, service provision, and KPIs
* Expertise in ERP systems and resource planning methodologies.
Qualifications for the Resource Coordinator:
* Relevant qualifications in business, operations, or engineering are desirable
* Experience with resource planning tools and systems is essential.
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 ( .
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: 28/10/2025