Head of The Plymouth Capability, Capacity and Resilience Programme

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as Head of The Plymouth Capability, Capacity and Resilience (PCCR) Programme at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role involves leading one of the most strategically significant programmes within Babcock. This is an exceptional opportunity to drive the successful implementation and delivery of major programmes that strengthen the capability, capacity and resilience across Devonport, the largest naval support site in Western Europe.

Day-to-day, you’ll play a vital role in safeguarding national defence by aligning strategic investments, accelerating improvements to operational infrastructure, embedding high‑quality governance and ensuring the delivery of benefits that directly support the Ministry of Defence. This is a senior leadership position where your influence will shape the future of the site and contribute to meaningful, long‑term improvements for the organisation, its customers and wider UK Defence.

• Lead the overall PCCR programme strategy, ensuring alignment with Babcock’s corporate goals and long‑term planning.
• Oversee programme‑level governance, ensuring strong decision‑making, risk management and clear benefit tracking.
• Shape and manage resource and capacity planning, working closely with HR, finance and delivery teams to resolve constraints.
• Engage senior leaders and external partners, building trusted relationships and communicating progress with clarity and confidence.
• Drive continuous improvement, embedding best‑practice programme and project management into the programme.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience:

• Significant experience leading large, complex programmes in environments such as defence, public sector, regulated industry, infrastructure or technology.
• Proven ability to oversee multi‑million‑pound programmes with complex interdependencies.
• Strong understanding of programme and project methodologies (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2, Agile).
• Demonstrated leadership and influencing capability at executive or board level.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience with business cases, investment appraisal and benefits tracking.

Qualifications:

• Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment or business sector.
• Additional qualifications in programme management, strategy, organisational design or advanced programme leadership – desirable.

Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be 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.

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 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.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.