Regional Facilities Business Partner North

Babcock International; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Digital GP & health checks

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Professional Fees covered

Paid leave for Reservists

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Regional Facilities Business Partner for the North, based around Helensburgh/Clyde. You will provide strategic facilities leadership across ~40–60 sites, advise senior operational leaders, ensure compliance and align facilities activities with business priorities.

This full-time role (37 hours weekly) offers hybrid working arrangements, exposure to a national estate, and opportunities for career development within a global organisation. Security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Significant facilities management experience across a dispersed portfolio.
• IWFM Level 3 in Facilities Management preferred.
• Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Experience developing business cases and capital investment proposals.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnering across a geographically dispersed portfolio.
• Performance management and continuous improvement across sites.
• Operational support and issue resolution for facilities operations.
• Oversee risk, compliance and resilience of the estate.
• Develop estate strategy and optimisation plans.
• Lead capital investment planning and business cases.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and functional leaders.

Skills

Facilities Management

Stakeholder Leadership

Commercial Acumen

Risk & Compliance

Education

IWFM Level 3 in Facilities Management

Job description

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Regional Facilities Business Partner North

Location: Coulport, Helensburgh, GB, G84 0PD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Regional Facilities Business Partner - North

Location: Clyde, Helensburgh + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76455

Lead Facilities Strategy Across a National Estate That Supports a Safer and More Secure World

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Regional Facilities Business Partner at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, with the flexibility to be based from any Babcock site location across the North region.

The role

As a Regional Facilities Business Partner, you'll play a strategic leadership role with responsibility for providing facilities management oversight and business-focused support across a geographically dispersed portfolio of approximately 40-60 sites across the Northern region. Acting as a trusted advisor to operational leaders, you'll help ensure facilities activities align with operational priorities, business objectives, compliance requirements and long-term estate strategies.

This is a unique opportunity to influence how critical infrastructure and workplaces support some of the UK's most important defence, aerospace and engineering programmes. You'll work with senior stakeholders, drive continuous improvement across a diverse estate, and contribute directly to creating safe, efficient and resilient environments. In return, you'll benefit from exceptional career development opportunities within a global organisation committed to helping its people thrive.

This role involves exposure to varied environments: Including construction sites, plant rooms, and external grounds, which may involve working in noisy, dusty, or outdoor conditions. Appropriate PPE will be provided.

Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for covering:

• Strategic Business Partnering
• Performance Management and Continuous Improvement
• Operational Support and Issue Resolution
• Risk, Compliance and Resilience
• Estate Strategy and Optimisation
• Capital Investment and Business Planning
• Stakeholder and Functional Leadership

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, with a flexible approach to working hours to accommodate travel and collaboration across multiple sites throughout the North region.

Essential experience of the Regional Facilities Business Partner

• Significant experience in Facilities Management ideally with Institute of Workplace Facilities Management (IWFM) Level 3 in Facilities Management
• Experience managing or supporting large, geographically dispersed property portfolios, managing competing priorities across multiple locations
• Strong commercial and business acumen and experience influencing senior operational stakeholders with strong communication, negotiation and relationship management abilities.
• Strong understanding of statutory compliance, property risk management and facilities operations,
• Experience developing business cases and capital investment proposals demonstrating excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Qualifications for the Regional Facilities Business Partner

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 Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.

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

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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.