Change Manager, Management

Change Manager

Location:

Faslane, Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

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.

• 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.

• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification.

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 -  ().

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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.

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 car 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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