Director of Satellite Communications Delivery

Director of Satellite Communications Delivery

Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Director of Satellite Communications Delivery
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61310

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 Director of Satellite Communications Delivery at our Hawthorn, Corsham site.

The Role
As a Director of Satellite Communications Delivery, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Supporting our customers delivering on their missions and creating a safe and secure world. Skynet has played a critical role in connecting our front-line commands, government partners and allies. It is an important capability for ensuring UK security and prosperity.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for driving cohesion of activities across multiple delivery teams, functions and stakeholders to deliver outcomes. We are on a mission to transform military space communication services and Skynet for a new era, for new challenges.

Play a critical leadership role in delivering this transformation, whilst maintaining service commitments and inspiring both existing and a new generation of people and talent.

Support the promotion of our space communication capabilities, working with the Head of Programme Delivery and Director of Future Solutions to ensure we maintain the integrity of our service delivery whilst transforming our service for the future.

• Accountable for technical output and performance across Space, Engineering, Service Delivery and Technical Infrastructure.
• Accountable for leadership of our technical and service delivery teams, building a strong delivery ethos with the right collaborative behaviours and positive culture.
• Accountable for the safety, regulatory compliance and cyber security of our products, services and infrastructure.
• Accountable for ensuring appropriate governance and process is in place across the Space, Engineering, Service Delivery and Technical Infrastructure teams, including delegation of technical authority and decision making, and that it complies with the Mission Systems processes.
• Ensure we deliver to our customer and end user service commitments whilst maintaining our commercial and financial commitments to the Mission Systems sector.
• Proactively identify new solutions and technologies to improve our capability offering.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home. The successful candidate will be required to travel to customer and Babcock sites.

Essential Experience of the Director of Satellite Communications Delivery

• Demonstrable experience of leading high performing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience in designing and delivering simple solutions to complex customer requirements.
• Experience in Technical delivery, service delivery and business management.
• Experience in planning, budgeting and executing at a senior level.
• Commercially astute, driven and with personal gravitas to lead a large delivery organisation.
• Experience in Strategic Communications, Space based communications or telecommunications.

Qualifications for the Director of Satellite Communications Delivery

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant Business or Engineering discipline or equivalent relevant professional experience. Business Masters degree preferable.
• Must hold a valid UK Driving License.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. However, the successful candidate may be required to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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.

What We Offer

• 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.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• Opportunities to travel within the UK.
• A dynamic working environment.

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: 10/01/2025