Job Title: Director Naval Training
Location: UK, Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead the future of Naval training and shape national 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 Director Naval Training at any of our main UK locations, near major commutable towns and regions across the country.
The role
As a Director Naval Training, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the next chapter of Babcock’s Naval training portfolio. This is a high‑impact leadership opportunity where you’ll guide how we deliver essential training programmes that help protect national security and support the Royal Navy’s operational excellence.
You’ll provide full P&L oversight across a diverse and evolving portfolio, ensuring the safe, effective and efficient delivery of our commitments. This is a role where your decisions directly influence the capability of the UK’s defence ecosystem. It’s also an exceptional platform for personal and career growth, giving you exposure to strategic leadership, senior customer engagement and high‑profile projects across the defence, aerospace and engineering sectors.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
1. Leading and embedding Naval training contracts into the wider business, enabling collaboration and joined‑up delivery.
2. Creating and executing strategies to expand and enhance our training portfolio, including Naval Nuclear, Mission Systems and special projects.
3. Working closely with contract leads, future business teams and Group colleagues to identify and sponsor new growth opportunities.
4. Engaging with senior customers, partners and internal leaders to maintain strong relationships and high-quality delivery.
5. Driving operational, financial and safety performance across the portfolio.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Director Naval Training
6. Established leadership background with proven P&L accountability.
7. Experience engaging with a broad and diverse customer base.
8. Sector experience across Marine, Mission Systems and/or Nuclear environments.
9. Strong track record in developing and executing business strategy.
Qualifications for the Director Naval Training
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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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