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Transformation Director Nuclear Sector
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Job Title: Transformation Director Nuclear Sector
Location: UK, Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76369
Shape the Future of Nuclear Transformation
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 Transformation Director Nuclear Sector.
The Role
As a Transformation Director Nuclear Sector, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal leadership role at a time of significant growth and evolution across our Nuclear Sector. Reporting directly to the Nuclear Sector Chief Executive Officer, you will define and drive the long-term transformation strategy, ensuring the business is positioned for sustainable growth, operational excellence, and successful delivery of customer missions.
Day-to-day, you'll be required to:
- Developing and maintaining the Nuclear Sector transformation strategy and roadmap, aligned to business priorities and Group objectives.
- Leading a sector-wide view of transformation programmes, including investment, risks, dependencies, capacity, outcomes and benefits realisation.
- Providing strategic insight, recommendations and assurance to the Nuclear Sector Chief Executive Officer and Executive Committee.
- Supporting business unit leaders to mobilise effective change, strengthen delivery readiness and embed sustainable improvements.
- Acting as the principal interface between the Nuclear Sector and Group leadership on transformation initiatives and priorities
This role is full time and provides hybrid working arrangements. This role can be based nationally from one of our Babcock hubs such as Bristol, Plymouth, Clyde, Warrington, Leicester, Clyde or Rosyth.
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Essential Experience
- Demonstrable experience leading large-scale transformation and change programmes at a senior leadership level.
- Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to identify opportunities that support business growth, people objectives and customer outcomes.
- Experience within the nuclear industry, including an understanding of nuclear safety, regulatory requirements and licensing.
- Proven expertise in strategy development, deployment and execution.
- Strong financial management and commercial awareness, with the ability to evaluate investment decisions and business performance.
Qualifications
- P3M qualification or equivalent programme, portfolio or project management accreditation.
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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.
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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘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
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Babcock
We’re Babcock — 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: 14/10/2026
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