Capability Manager

Babcock International; Rosyth, Dunfermline; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP access

Job summary

Babcock International in Rosyth, Scotland, is seeking a Capability Manager to lead and develop the organisation's nuclear competence and capability framework, ensuring workforce readiness and regulatory compliance for safety-critical programmes.

You will work with senior leaders and regulators to shape long-term capability planning, manage safety-critical risks, and support LC12 compliance. The role is hybrid, based at Rosyth with Monday–Thursday hours, and requires UK SC clearance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing competence, capability, authorisation and SQEP frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the nuclear competence and capability framework.
• Manage a small team and integrate with wider LC 10, 12, and 36 responsibilities.
• Support regulatory inspections, audits and assurance activities.
• Advise senior leaders on capability, succession planning and competence risks.
• Collaborate with engineering, nuclear safety, HR and workforce planning to maintain readiness.

Skills

Nuclear competence management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Safety-critical environment

Security clearances

Education

Degree qualified or significant experience

Job description

Job Title: Capability Manager

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75821

Shape the future of nuclear safety and workforce 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 Capability Manager at our Rosyth site.

This is a unique opportunity to help deliver one of the UK's most important defence infrastructure programmes. Working on the new Contingent Docking Facility at Rosyth, you'll play a central role in ensuring the right people, with the right skills and experience, are in place to safely support nuclear operations. You'll be at the forefront of maintaining nuclear competence standards, supporting regulatory compliance, and helping to build the capability needed for current and future programmes.

The role

As a Capability Manager, you'll lead and develop the organisation's nuclear competence and capability framework, ensuring workforce readiness, regulatory compliance, and the safe delivery of nuclear programmes. This is a highly visible role where you'll work with senior leaders, engineering teams, safety specialists and regulators to shape long-term capability planning and manage safety-critical competence risks. It's an exciting opportunity to influence strategic decision-making while contributing to projects that support national security and public safety.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Manage and maintain the nuclear competence and capability framework.
• Manage a small team of staff and integrate with the wider team managing LC 10, 12, and 36.
• Supporting regulatory inspections, audits and assurance activities.
• Advising senior leaders on capability, succession planning and competence risks.
• Collaborating with engineering, nuclear safety, HR and workforce planning teams to maintain workforce readiness.
• Ensuring suitably qualified and experienced personnel are identified and authorised for safety-critical activities.

This is a full-time role based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available. Working hours are Monday to Thursday.

Essential experience of the Capability Manager:

• Proven experience managing competence, capability, authorisation and SQEP (Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel) frameworks within the nuclear sector or another highly regulated, safety-critical environment.
• Knowledge of nuclear regulatory requirements, compliance obligations and competence management principles -Desirable
• Experience supporting regulatory inspections, audits and compliance activities, including knowledge of Licence Condition 12 (LC12) requirements - Desirable
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage safety-critical workforce capability and support the mitigation of operational risk.

Qualifications for the Capability Manager:

• Degree qualified or significant experience in similar role.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be UK sole national and 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 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: 29/09/2026

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