Job Title: Senior Facilities Manager
Location: Ashchurch, Tewkesbury
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74156
Lead the environments that power mission-critical innovation
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Facilities Manager at our Tewkesbury site, near Gloucester.
Working at the heart of our Mission Systems business, you’ll support advanced defence, intelligence and cyber capabilities by ensuring our facilities operate safely, efficiently and to the highest standards. This is your opportunity to shape complex engineering environments that underpin national security and technological innovation.
As a Senior Facilities Manager, you’ll take ownership of multiple complex sites, leading facilities operations that enable cutting-edge defence and engineering programmes. You’ll play a critical role in maintaining safe, compliant and high-performing environments while driving continuous improvement and supporting business growth.
This is a dynamic leadership role where you’ll influence strategic decisions, manage budgets and lead projects that enhance capability across our estate making a tangible difference to both our organisation and wider society.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Leading and managing a team to deliver high-quality facilities services across multiple sites
- Overseeing compliance with health, safety and infrastructure standards in complex engineering environments
- Managing operational budgets and ensuring cost-effective delivery of facilities services
- Driving facilities projects and improvements, including upgrades to specialist labs and infrastructure
- Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers and senior leaders
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and you will be required to travel between the 2 sites in Tewkesbury and some travel to site at Manchester. There is some flexibility with home working as needed.
Essential experience of the Senior Facilities Manager
- Demonstrating a strong technical background in facilities management within complex environments
- Applying in-depth knowledge of health, safety and compliance standards
- Managing building infrastructure and planned maintenance frameworks (knowledge of SFG20 is desirable)
- Leading and developing teams, with the ability to delegate effectively and think strategically
- Communicating confidently with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and customers
Qualifications for the Senior Facilities Manager
- IWFM Level 3 or 4 qualification (or equivalent) is desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) (can start with Security Check) 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 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘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
- Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
- A dynamic working environment
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: 07/07/2026
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