Global Head of Technical Governance and Assurance

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom The Engineer Full time

Job Title: Global Head of Technical Governance and Assurance
Location: Flexible, Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57078

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us, you can play your part as our Global Head of Technical Governance and Assurance.

The Role
As the Global Head of Technical Governance and Assurance, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will have responsibility over the development, implementation, and management of the technical governance & assurance framework across Babcock International Group.

Day-to-day, you'll develop and implement independent technical governance and assurance processes to ensure technical risks within programs are identified and managed.

  • Collection and analysis of technical performance data
  • Management and change control of the engineering policy
  • Management and coordination of independent technical reviews across the group
  • Communicate with and influence stakeholders regarding the integration of governance and assurance
  • Development, implementation, and management of the technical authority framework

This role is full time and requires travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a regular basis alongside home working arrangements.

Experience Required of the Global Head of Technical Governance and Assurance

  • Ability to think innovatively to enhance current offerings and identify opportunities to optimize engineering capability
  • High degree of commercial & legal knowledge
  • Ability to influence enterprise-wide cultural change and embed values and behaviors
  • Use of data to understand, identify, and overcome barriers to operational excellence
  • Effectively develop and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Qualifications for the Global Head of Technical Governance and Assurance

  • Bachelor of Engineering
  • Chartered membership of an appropriate professional institute

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. 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

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
  • Holiday Trading benefit allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their entitlement
  • 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year for volunteering work
  • Flexible locations

Babcock International
For over a century, Babcock has helped 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 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 the interview.

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