Operational Resilience Lead

Job Title:                      Operations Resilience Lead

Location:                      Rosyth, Fife or Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            £60,000 - £65,000 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF71284

Create resilience that protects the UK’s most critical marine operations

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Operations Resilience Lead at our Rosyth or Devonport site.

The role

As an Operations Resilience Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a critical role in strengthening the resilience of our Marine Sector. Your work will ensure that in times of crisis or operational disruption, we have the right frameworks, plans, and processes in place to protect people, assets, and national capability. This is a role with real purpose contributing directly to the UK’s defence, maritime readiness, and long‑term operational continuity.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Deliver and maintain Business Impact Analyses and Business Continuity Plans across the Marine Sector.


• Lead the design and rollout of annual exercises covering business continuity, crisis management and emergency response.


• Act as a key continuity coordinator during incidents, supporting recovery and response teams.


• Produce clear performance reporting and insights for Marine Sector leadership.


• Build strong working relationships with internal teams, regulators, customers and suppliers to ensure alignment and assurance.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Rosyth or Devonport on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Operations Resilience Lead

• Leading programmes covering business continuity and resilience strategies.


• Developing, implementing and maintaining BIAs and BCPs.


• Designing and delivering resilience exercises and training programmes.


• Coordinating crisis or emergency response activity in complex organisations.


• Engaging and influencing senior stakeholders internally and externally.

Qualifications for the Operations Resilience Lead

• Qualified by experience in resilience, business continuity or a related discipline.


• Previous experience in a similar role with strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills.


• Experience gained within engineering, manufacturing or other highly regulated industries – Desirable

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 [email protected] 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: 18/02/2026