Asset Risk Manager in Salisbury

Shape the Future of Defence Asset Management

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Asset Risk Manager at Andover, near Winchester, Hampshire.

The role

As an Asset Risk Manager, you’ll help drive smarter, safer and more resilient asset strategies across key defence programmes supporting the British Army. This is an exciting opportunity to influence decisions that enhance national security, improve fleet reliability and support the long‑term performance of critical military equipment.

Your work will directly support the Babcock Service Provision and Transformation Contract (SPTC), a major programme providing end‑to‑end equipment support and fleet management services to the Ministry of Defence. It’s a role that will strengthen your analytical expertise, grow your influence and broaden your experience across the defence, engineering and digital innovation landscape.

Day-to-day, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic vision for asset management using data, modelling and insight to guide how equipment is supported across its entire lifecycle.

• Lead the assessment and statistical modelling of asset failure risks to inform decision-making.
• Develop insights and intelligence to support Through Life Equipment Support (TLES) contracts.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the Asset Management team in developing its strategic digital approach.
• Collaborate across engineering, data, commercial and customer teams to improve asset performance.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home. You will be expected to travel to Bovington and Donnington maybe once a month.

Essential experience

• Using data to identify insights and produce clear, concise business reporting.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience with SAP and other business reporting tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

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 a 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 share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days’ special paid leave
• Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid day per year for volunteering
• Flexible working options
• A dynamic working environment that supports development and progression

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 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.