Group Facilities Management Director in Tavistock

Location: Hybrid, UK

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 involves providing 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 responsibilities include:

• 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:

• 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 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.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience of supplier management, framework agreements, outsourced service models and performance governance.

Qualifications:

• 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 positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

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 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 to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock is 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 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.

Closing date: 31/07/2026. Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. We encourage early applications, as we may close the advert before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of strong candidates.