Safety & Assurance Director
// Role Summary
Lead strategic direction for aviation safety, health, environmental protection, security, and assurance across Babcock's UK Aviation business. This high-profile role influences business performance and ensures the safe delivery of critical aviation services.
// Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for safety, health, environmental protection, security, facilities management, and assurance.
- Drive integrated management systems and assurance frameworks for continuous improvement.
- Offer independent oversight of compliance, governance, and risk management.
- Lead and develop specialist teams in safety, compliance, audit, and assurance.
- Engage with regulators, customers, and senior stakeholders.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Safety and Assurance Director at Babcock, you will have a role that’s out of the ordinary, providing strategic leadership across safety, health, environmental protection, security, facilities management, risk management, compliance, and assurance for our UK Aviation business. This is a high-profile leadership opportunity where you will influence business performance, strengthen governance, and help ensure the safe delivery of critical aviation services that support national security and public safety.
What You'll Do Day-to-Day
- Lead the strategic direction for safety, health, environmental protection, security, facilities management, and assurance across UK Aviation.
- Drive the effectiveness and continuous improvement of integrated management systems and assurance frameworks.
- Provide independent oversight of compliance, governance, risk management, and organisational performance.
- Lead and develop specialist teams responsible for safety, compliance, audit, assurance, and related functions.
- Build trusted relationships with regulators, customers, employees, and senior stakeholders to maintain confidence and operational excellence.
Essential Experience
- Extensive senior leadership experience leading multidisciplinary teams across multiple sites within a complex, highly regulated aviation environment.
- Significant experience leading safety, health, environment, compliance, or assurance functions.
- Strong knowledge of aviation safety management systems, governance, compliance monitoring, and risk management principles.
- Experience operating as an Accountable Manager, Nominated Post Holder, senior military aviation leader, continuing airworthiness manager, maintenance manager, or equivalent.
- Proven experience engaging with aviation regulators, customers, and senior stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Degree qualification in Aviation, Engineering, Safety Management, Environmental Management, or a related discipline.
- Chartered membership or fellowship of a recognised professional body such as IOSH, IEMA, RAeS, or equivalent.
- Airline Transport Pilot Licence, Commercial Pilot Licence, Part 66 Licence, or an equivalent aviation qualification.
Location and Working Arrangements
This is a full-time, permanent role working 37.5 hours per week. It can be based at any of Babcock's UK hubs, with regular travel required to UK Aviation sites. Hybrid working patterns are available.