AUKUS Nuclear Campaign Director

weServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping savings

Professional Fees paid

Paid leave for Reservists

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an AUKUS Nuclear Campaign Director to lead the nuclear campaign across the UK and Australia, delivering integrated solutions and aligning capabilities with campaign objectives. You will engage with senior stakeholders across government, regulators, customers, and delivery partners, contributing to strategic decisions at the Nuclear Senior Leadership Team.

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape national security outcomes while developing leadership within a globally

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience within defence nuclear or highly regulated infrastructure sectors.
• Extensive knowledge of submarine sustainment, nuclear operations, infrastructure delivery or major nuclear programmes.
• Proven track record of leading complex, multi-stakeholder programmes and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Leading Nuclear Sector engagement across all AUKUS campaign activities and strategic initiatives.
• Developing integrated solutions by bringing together expertise from Naval Nuclear, Major Nuclear Capital Projects, Cavendish Nuclear and wider Nuclear functions.
• Building strong relationships with customers, government bodies, regulators and key stakeholders across the United Kingdom and Australia.
• Aligning sector capability, resources and delivery plans with campaign strategy and long-term programme objectives.
• Providing senior leadership input as a member of the Nuclear Senior Leadership Team and acting as a key interface across Babcock businesses and delivery organisations.

Skills

Senior leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory awareness

Strategic thinking

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer

Job description

Job Title: AUKUS Nuclear Campaign Director

Location: Plymouth, Bristol, Portsmouth, Leicester, Warrington, Rosyth or London + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76454

Shape the future of defence nuclear capability across the United Kingdom and Australia

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an AUKUS Nuclear Campaign Director at any of our main UK locations.

The role

As an AUKUS Nuclear Campaign Director, you’ll have a rare opportunity to take a leading role in one of the most significant strategic defence and nuclear programmes of our generation. AUKUS represents a multi-decade collaboration spanning submarine sustainment, infrastructure development, workforce capability, nuclear stewardship and future defence capability. As a senior leader within our Nuclear Sector, you will help shape how Babcock delivers world-class outcomes that strengthen national security, support international partnerships and create lasting impact for future generations.

Day-to-day, you’ll act as the Nuclear Sector lead for all AUKUS activity across Babcock, ensuring our capabilities, expertise and solutions are aligned to campaign objectives and customer needs. Working at the heart of a high-profile international programme, you'll bring together specialist knowledge from across the business to develop integrated, credible and deliverable solutions that support defence nuclear capability across the United Kingdom and Australia. This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic decision-making at the highest levels while accelerating your own leadership and professional development within a globally recognised engineering organisation.

• Leading Nuclear Sector engagement across all AUKUS campaign activities and strategic initiatives.
• Developing integrated solutions by bringing together expertise from Naval Nuclear, Major Nuclear Capital Projects, Cavendish Nuclear and wider Nuclear functions.
• Building strong relationships with customers, government bodies, regulators and key stakeholders across the United Kingdom and Australia.
• Aligning sector capability, resources and delivery plans with campaign strategy and long-term programme objectives.
• Providing senior leadership input as a member of the Nuclear Senior Leadership Team and acting as a key interface across Babcock businesses and delivery organisations.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based at any of our main UK locations. Travel to other Babcock and customer sites will be expected.

Essential experience of the AUKUS Nuclear Campaign Director

• Senior leadership experience within defence nuclear, naval nuclear or highly regulated infrastructure sectors.
• Extensive knowledge of submarine sustainment, nuclear operations, infrastructure delivery or major nuclear programmes.
• Proven track record of leading complex, multi-stakeholder programmes and strategic initiatives.
• Strong understanding of customer, regulatory and government stakeholder environments.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and delivering outcomes within large-scale, complex organisations.

Qualifications for the AUKUS Nuclear Campaign Director

Essential:

• Degree qualified in an engineering, technical or related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional accreditation.

Desirable:

• Experience of United Kingdom Defence Nuclear Enterprise programmes.
• Experience working with Australian or international defence customers.
• Experience supporting major bids, campaigns or strategic growth initiatives.
• Understanding of AUKUS and broader defence industrial collaboration.

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 (www.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 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] 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: 20/10/2026

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