Change Manager

Babcock Canada Inc.; Helensburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence contractor is seeking a Change Manager to lead transformational change at the Royal Navy. This role involves managing a multi-disciplinary team and overseeing change control governance. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in change management and project control. The position offers hybrid working with the flexibility to work from home and on-site at Faslane, Scotland, along with a robust benefits package including professional development opportunities and security clearance requirements.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and managing large teams in a complex, fast‑paced project environment.
• Demonstrable track record managing high volumes of change with robust governance and control.
• Expertise in change management or project change control, including impact analysis and approvals.
• Advanced capability managing data and dashboards to support decision‑making and performance reporting.
• Strong stakeholder management across joint project teams and customer interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a multi‑disciplinary change team to manage a high volume of project change across Clyde programmes.
• Own change control governance—from initiation to impact assessment, approval, and implementation.
• Partner with project managers, engineers, and customer stakeholders to align baselines and keep decisions timely and transparent.
• Maintain and improve dashboards and data to track trends, risks, and performance.
• Continuously improve methods, standards, and ways of working across the PMO.

Skills

Change management

Project management

Data management

Stakeholder management

Education

APM Project Fundamentals Qualification

Job description

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Lead transformational change at the heart of the Royal Navy

About Us

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Change Manager at Faslane, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

The role

As a Change Manager, you’ll shape, govern, and accelerate project change across programmes that matter for national defence. You’ll sit within the Project Management Office, leading a small team of senior change specialists and change specialists, and partnering daily with project managers, engineers, and the customer. It’s a role where your leadership will make complex work safer, smarter, and faster—while growing your capability in a mission‑critical environment

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Lead and coach a multi‑disciplinary change team to manage a high volume of project change across Clyde programmes.
• Own change control governance—from initiation to impact assessment, approval, and implementation—ensuring scope, schedule, and cost are protected.
• Partner with project managers, engineers, and customer stakeholders to align baselines and keep decisions timely and transparent.
• Maintain and improve dashboards and data to track trends, risks, and performance; report actionable insights to senior leaders.
• Continuously improve methods, standards, and ways of working across the PMO to embed best practice and measurable outcomes.

You’ll be working full-time, Monday–Thursday, 36 hours per week. This is a hybrid role with a mixture of working from home and working on site at our Faslane site.

Essential experience of the Change Manager:

• Proven experience leading and managing large teams in a complex, fast‑paced project environment.
• Demonstrable track record managing high volumes of change with robust governance and control.
• Expertise in change management or project change control, including impact analysis and approvals.
• Advanced capability managing data and dashboards to support decision‑making and performance reporting.
• Strong stakeholder management across joint project teams and customer interfaces.

Qualifications for the Infrastructure Change Manager:

• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 (www.gov.uk) .

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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: 21/01/2026

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