Safety & Assurance Director in Gloucester

Location: Gloucester, GB, GL51 6SP Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX Portsmouth, GB, PO6 3EN Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75210

Lead Aviation Safety. Shape Strategy. Make a National Impact.

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Safety and Assurance Director at any of our Babcock hubs.

The role

As a Safety and Assurance Director, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll provide strategic leadership across safety, health, environmental protection, security, facilities management, risk management, compliance and assurance for our UK Aviation business. This is a high-profile leadership opportunity where you'll influence business performance, strengthen governance, and help ensure the safe delivery of critical aviation services that support national security and public safety.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead the strategic direction for safety, health, environmental protection, security, facilities management and assurance across UK Aviation.
• Drive the effectiveness and continuous improvement of integrated management systems and assurance frameworks.
• Provide independent oversight of compliance, governance, risk management and organisational performance.
• Lead and develop specialist teams responsible for safety, compliance, audit, assurance and related functions.
• Build trusted relationships with regulators, customers, employees and senior stakeholders to maintain confidence and operational excellence.

This is a full-time, permanent role working 37.5 hours per week and can be based at any of our Babcock Hubs, with regular travel required to UK Aviation sites. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Safety and Assurance Director:

• Extensive senior leadership experience leading multidisciplinary teams across multiple sites within a complex, highly regulated aviation environment.
• Significant experience leading safety, health, environment, compliance or assurance functions.
• Strong knowledge of aviation safety management systems, governance, compliance monitoring and risk management principles.
• Experience operating as an Accountable Manager, Nominated Post Holder, senior military aviation leader, continuing airworthiness manager, maintenance manager or equivalent.
• Proven experience engaging with aviation regulators, customers and senior stakeholders.

Qualifications for the Safety and Assurance Director:

• Degree qualification in Aviation, Engineering, Safety Management, Environmental Management or a related discipline.
• Chartered membership or fellowship of a recognised professional body such as IOSH, IEMA, RAeS or equivalent.
• Airline Transport Pilot Licence, Commercial Pilot Licence, Part 66 Licence or an equivalent aviation qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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.

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 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.
• ‘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 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.