Group FM Compliance Manager

Babcock · Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

FULL TIME

Job Description

Job Title: Group FM Compliance Manager

Location

Hybrid, UK

Compensation: Competitive Salary +

Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77369

Shape the future of compliance across a global organisation

The role

As a Group Facilities Management Compliance Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in transforming and strengthening facilities management compliance across Babcock's UK estate. Reporting to the Global Facilities Management Director, you'll lead the development of robust compliance frameworks, standards, controls and governance arrangements that help ensure our buildings, infrastructure and workplaces remain safe, compliant and operationally effective.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence compliance strategy at a Group level, driving meaningful improvements across a complex multi-site portfolio. You'll help create the foundations for long-term compliance excellence while working with senior stakeholders across the business. In return, you'll gain exposure to large-scale transformation programmes, develop your leadership capabilities, and make a tangible impact on an organisation that supports critical national infrastructure and defence programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to

Developing and implementing facilities management compliance standards, processes and governance frameworks across the organisation.

Driving improvements in compliance maturity, controls, reporting and performance management across a multi-site estate.

Supporting operational teams to meet statutory, engineering and facilities compliance obligations.

Providing compliance insight, assurance and performance monitoring to senior stakeholders.

Enhancing compliance data quality, consistency and visibility to support informed decision-making.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Group FM Compliance Manager

Significant experience in facilities management compliance, statutory compliance, engineering compliance, governance or a related discipline.

Strong understanding of compliance obligations associated with property, facilities and infrastructure management.

Experience developing compliance frameworks, control environments and governance arrangements.

Demonstrable experience improving organisational maturity within a complex multi-site environment.

Strong analytical, reporting, stakeholder management and assurance capabilities.

Qualifications for the Group FM Compliance Manager

Professional qualifications (advantageous) – IWFM, IOSH, NEBOSH, CIBSE, IIRSM, IRCA Auditor, or equivalent.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 (

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 29,000 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 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: 26/11/2026

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