Job Title: Service Transition Manager
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Service Transition Manager at Hawthorn, near Corsham, Wiltshire.
The Role
As a Service Transition Manager, you’ll be at the heart of delivering Skynet – a critical programme supporting the UK Ministry of Defence. This is your chance to make a real impact by ensuring seamless service transitions that keep our nation connected and secure. You’ll work in a dynamic environment, collaborating with military personnel and stakeholders, while developing your career in defence, aerospace, and engineering.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Manage service transition activities and governance processes.
2. Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including military personnel.
3. Ensure customer satisfaction and compliance with contractual obligations.
4. Communicate effectively with third-party suppliers to remove blockers and maintain smooth operations.
5. Lead multi-functional teams to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with up to 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Experience of the Service Transition Manager
6. Familiarity with ITIL V3 or V4 (beneficial but not essential).
7. Understanding of commercial or satellite communications (advantageous).
8. Ability to obtain SC clearance (DV clearance is beneficial).
9. Previous experience in IT Service Management or similar role.
10. Project Management experience.
Qualifications for the Service Transition Manager
11. Project Management qualifications such as APM PFQ or PMI CAPM.
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
What We Offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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
20. ‘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
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.