Job Title: Senior Risk Specialist
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF74056
Shape critical decisions and safeguard mission‑critical programmes
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 Risk Specialist at Ashton House, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.
Within our Mission Systems business, you’ll contribute to advanced defence and security solutions from communications and intelligence systems to complex engineering programmes. This is your chance to play a pivotal role in protecting high‑profile projects while building a meaningful and rewarding career in defence, aerospace and engineering.
The role
As a Senior Risk Specialist, you’ll take the lead in delivering robust risk and opportunity management across complex, high‑value programmes. You’ll work at the heart of multidisciplinary project teams, helping to identify, assess, and mitigate risks that could impact delivery while unlocking opportunities that enhance performance and outcomes.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence major projects that support national security, giving you the platform to demonstrate expert risk management capability and grow within a global engineering organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Leading the implementation of risk and opportunity management frameworks across projects
- Managing and maintaining risk registers, risk management plans, and reporting outputs
- Identifying, analysing, and mitigating project and programme risks and opportunities
- Applying quantitative risk techniques such as schedule and cost analysis
- Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure risks are understood and effectively managed
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Risk Specialist
- Delivering risk management within large, complex projects or programmes
- Driving day-to-day risk management activities across multidisciplinary teams
- Applying risk governance and assurance principles in a structured environment
- Using or supporting quantitative risk techniques such as Monte Carlo analysis (desirable)
- Working within defence, engineering, or similarly regulated industries (desirable)
Qualifications for the Senior Risk Specialist
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 able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK.
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
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: 29/06/2026
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