Job Title: Waterfront Daywork Jetty Manager
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute
Compensation: GG7 – Up to £52,230.00
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67492/67495
Shape the Future of Naval Operations
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Waterfront Daywork Jetty Manager at Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Waterfront Daywork Jetty Manager, you’ll be at the heart of operations that support the Royal Navy’s most advanced vessels. You’ll coordinate, control and de-conflict all activities on the jetties, ensuring they’re carried out safely and efficiently. This is a dynamic and high-impact role where your decisions directly contribute to national defence and nuclear safety.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Managing berthing operations for nuclear-powered warships, surface vessels and other units
- Supporting the Waterfront Operations Manager to optimise resource utilisation
- Ensuring all tasks meet cost, time and quality standards
- Driving improvements in systems and processes to boost safety and productivity
- Implementing safety, quality and environmental policies across the Waterfront Team.
This is a full-time, permanent position based on-site at Clyde, working 42 hours per week. Shift patterns and on-call arrangements are part of the role, as detailed in the Waterfront Jetty Managers Agreement.
Essential experience of the Waterfront Daywork Jetty Manager:
- Knowledge of Waterfront Facilities Systems and Equipment
- Experience with Asset and Maintenance Management Systems
- Understanding of Nuclear Safety and Safety Cases
- Familiarity with Waterfront Procedures
- Awareness of COSHH regulations.
Qualifications for the Waterfront Daywork Jetty Manager:
Essential qualifications will be discussed during the selection process. Candidates with relevant technical, engineering or maritime qualifications are encouraged to apply.
Security Clearance
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 - 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 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.
Babcock International
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 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: 16/10/2025