Capability Manager in Rosyth

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of nuclear safety and workforce capability. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Capability Manager at our Rosyth site. This is a unique opportunity to help deliver one of the UK's most important defence infrastructure programmes. Working on the new Contingent Docking Facility at Rosyth, you'll play a central role in ensuring the right people, with the right skills and experience, are in place to safely support nuclear operations. You'll be at the forefront of maintaining nuclear competence standards, supporting regulatory compliance, and helping to build the capability needed for current and future programmes.

The role involves leading and developing the organisation's nuclear competence and capability framework, ensuring workforce readiness, regulatory compliance, and the safe delivery of nuclear programmes. This is a highly visible role where you'll work with senior leaders, engineering teams, safety specialists and regulators to shape long-term capability planning and manage safety-critical competence risks. It's an exciting opportunity to influence strategic decision-making while contributing to projects that support national security and public safety.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Manage and maintain the nuclear competence and capability framework.
• Manage a small team of staff and integrate with the wider team managing LC 10, 12, and 36.
• Support regulatory inspections, audits and assurance activities.
• Advise senior leaders on capability, succession planning and competence risks.
• Collaborate with engineering, nuclear safety, HR and workforce planning teams to maintain workforce readiness.
• Ensure suitably qualified and experienced personnel are identified and authorised for safety-critical activities.

This is a full-time role based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available. Working hours are Monday to Thursday.

Essential experience includes:

• Proven experience managing competence, capability, authorisation and SQEP (Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel) frameworks within the nuclear sector or another highly regulated, safety-critical environment.
• Knowledge of nuclear regulatory requirements, compliance obligations and competence management principles.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage safety-critical workforce capability and support the mitigation of operational risk.

Qualifications:

• Degree qualified or significant experience in a similar role.

Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be UK sole national and able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

What 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 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 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 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.

Closing date: 29/09/2026