Group Facilities Management Director

Babcock International Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP / Aviva DigiCare+

Employee shopping portal

Paid professional fees

Leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Group Facilities Management Director to lead FM strategy across a multi-site, globally deployed defence and engineering organisation. You will define standards, governance and supplier frameworks to deliver safe, compliant and value-driven outcomes.

Based in a hybrid UK role, you will influence senior stakeholders, shape operating models and drive performance across Hard and Soft FM, Workplace Services and capital projects, while maintaining high security and safety

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in facilities management across multiple sites.
• Experience in defence, government, or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong commercial acumen with supplier management and governance.
• Understanding of hard and soft facilities management and risk controls.
• Track record in operating model design and performance improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic direction for FM across the organisation.
• Governance, standards, supplier strategy and performance frameworks.
• Shape long-term operating models and commercial arrangements.
• Influence senior stakeholders during a major FM transformation.
• Ensure safety, compliance, risk management and performance.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Governance

Stakeholder management

Facilities management

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Job Title: Group Facilities Management Director

Location: Hybrid, UK

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75109

Shape the Future of Facilities Management Across a Global Defence and Engineering Organisation

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Group Facilities Management Director at one of our main UK sites including London, Warrington, Bristol, Devonport, Leicester or Rosyth.

The role

As Group Facilities Management Director, you will provide strategic leadership for Facilities Management across a complex global organisation. This is a rare opportunity to influence the future direction of facilities management at enterprise level, leading the development of standards, governance, supplier strategy, and operational excellence across a diverse estate.

Joining us during a pivotal phase of transformation, you will help shape and mature the Facilities Management function, ensuring it delivers safe, effective and sustainable outcomes across defence, aerospace and engineering environments. Your expertise will directly support critical programmes that help protect national security, maintain essential infrastructure, and create long-term value for our customers and communities.

Day-to-day, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the strategic direction and maturity of the Facilities Management function across the organisation.
• Driving consistency, governance, assurance and performance standards across Hard Facilities Management, Soft Facilities Management, Workplace Services, Compliance and Capital Projects.
• Shaping long-term operating models, supplier strategies and commercial frameworks to maximise value and service delivery.
• Influencing senior stakeholders and providing expert guidance during a significant facilities management transformation programme.
• Ensuring facilities operations maintain the highest standards of safety, compliance, risk management and operational performance.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Group Facilities Management Director:

• Significant senior leadership experience in facilities management within a complex, multi-site organisation at enterprise or group level.
• Experience working in defence, government, military, infrastructure, engineering or other highly regulated and security-sensitive environments.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience of supplier management, framework agreements, outsourced service models and performance governance.
• Strong understanding of Hard Facilities Management, Soft Facilities Management, compliance, safety and risk management.
• Demonstrable success in developing operating models, governance frameworks, organisational capability and performance improvement initiatives.

Qualifications for the Group Facilities Management Director:

Essential qualifications are not specified; however, the following professional qualifications would be advantageous:

• Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management qualification (IWFM).
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors qualification (RICS).
• Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers qualification (CIBSE).
• IOSH or NEBOSH certification.
• Association for Project Management qualification (APM), Chartered Management Institute qualification (CMI), or equivalent professional accreditation.

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 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 26,000 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: 28/09/2026