Your Role
A Business Support Specialist is an intermediate-level professional role in the Business Support discipline of the Business Support role family. This role requires an expanded level of knowledge and experience of professional practice in this discipline, representing the first degree of progression from an entry-level role. This role applies discipline domain knowledge, experience, and judgement to undertake a range of professional assignments. This role will work within established procedures and guidance, under supervision from management roles or senior grade professionals
Job Title: Business Support Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £33,900 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74315
Drive operational excellence within nuclear programmes
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 Business Support Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Business Support Manager, you’ll play a key role in enabling the effective delivery of nuclear programmes by providing structured business support across operational, governance and performance activities. This is an opportunity to work at the centre of programme delivery, ensuring processes run smoothly, stakeholders are supported, and key business priorities are achieved.
Day-to-day, you’ll contribute to the safe and efficient operation of one of the UK’s most important defence and nuclear environments, while developing your leadership and operational management skills.
- Supporting the coordination of business operations to ensure effective programme delivery
- Managing governance activities, including reporting, planning and performance tracking
- Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders to improve processes and efficiency
- Providing oversight and organisation of business support functions across the team
- Ensuring compliance with nuclear, regulatory and company standards
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Business Support Manager
- Demonstrable experience in a business support, operations or coordination role
- Experience working within a regulated or complex environment (e.g. nuclear, engineering, defence)
- Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver against deadlines
- Experience supporting governance, reporting or operational processes
Qualifications for the Business Support Manager
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
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: 24/06/2026
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