Group Sustainability Programme Manager FTC

Job Title: Group Sustainability Programme Manager

Location: UK, Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF

Lead sustainability programmes that help protect the future

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 Sustainability Programme Manager at any of our main UK locations.

Babcock is a global defence, aerospace and engineering organisation trusted to deliver critical services that matter. Sustainability is central to how we operate today and how we safeguard tomorrow. Our people are empowered to lead meaningful change, balancing innovation, responsibility and long‑term value for society.

The role

As a Group Sustainability Programme Manager, you’ll take a pivotal role in leading and coordinating delivery of Babcock’s Group Sustainability Strategy. This is a highly visible position where you’ll provide direction, governance and insight across a complex portfolio of sustainability initiatives that span our business.

This role offers the opportunity to shape real change at scale strengthening environmental performance while enhancing your own leadership capability, programme governance expertise and strategic influence.

Day-to-day, you’ll work with senior leaders and cross‑functional teams to maintain momentum, embed best practice and ensure that sustainability commitments translate into measurable outcomes.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Group Sustainability Programme Manager

Qualifications for the Group Sustainability Programme Manager

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.

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