Job Title: Innovation Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £56,570 - £66,229 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74564
Shape the Future of Engineering Innovation
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 Innovation Manager at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Innovation Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal role in driving transformation across our Marine sector. This is your opportunity to lead meaningful change, champion new ways of working, and deliver measurable improvements across complex engineering and operational environments. You’ll work at the forefront of continuous improvement, using your expertise to influence strategy, embed best practice, and unlock performance across the business.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Leading and delivering improvement projects aligned to departmental and business goals
- Analysing operational performance to identify and implement improvement initiatives
- Collaborating cross-functionally to drive innovation and share best practice
- Supporting stakeholders with change initiatives, tools, and methodologies
- Ensuring accurate reporting, planning, and maintenance of system records
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Innovation Manager
- Demonstrating proven experience in management roles, including leading change programmes
- Showing a strong track record of delivering business improvement through leadership and vision
- Working within regulated environments where transformation and value delivery are critical
- Collaborating effectively across multiple functions and stakeholder groups
Qualifications for the Innovation Manager
- Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Project Management qualification such as Association for Project Management Project Management Qualification
- Lean or Six Sigma Green Belt certification
- Change Management Foundation or equivalent
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or advanced continuous improvement experience would be advantageous
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 (www.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
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 09/07/2026
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