Job Title: Head of Delivery Services
Location: Plymouth, Bristol or Edinburgh
Compensation: Competitive + 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 Head of Delivery Services at our Plymouth, Bristol or Edinburgh sites.
The role
As a Head of Delivery Services, you’ll take on a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and driving the delivery of complex portfolios that support the Royal Navy and wider UK defence. You will align strategic investment with operational delivery, ensuring governance, performance, and continuous improvement are embedded across the organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the opportunity to influence large-scale programmes, improve infrastructure and capability, and deliver measurable benefits in a safety-critical, highly regulated environment. You’ll work at the forefront of defence delivery, contributing to long-term national security while advancing your leadership career at a global organisation.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at either, Plymouth, Bristol or Edinburgh and requires travel to the other sites.
Essential experience of the Head of Delivery Services
Qualifications for the Head of Delivery Services
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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.
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