As a Head of Mobilisation, you will lead the end-to-end mobilisation of major programmes and contracts, ensuring projects transition seamlessly from concept to operational delivery. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will shape mobilisation strategy, drive cross-functional collaboration, and ensure operational readiness across a complex engineering programme.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading mobilisation activities across multiple programmes to ensure successful and timely delivery
• Driving mobilisation strategies, governance, and planning frameworks across projects
• Coordinating cross-functional teams to achieve operational readiness and performance targets
• Managing risks, resources, and stakeholder engagement throughout mobilisation phases
• Ensuring compliance with contractual, regulatory, and safety requirements

Essential experience of the Head of Mobilisation:

• Demonstrating leadership experience within programme delivery, mobilisation, or project management environments
• Managing complex, large-scale projects within engineering, defence, or infrastructure sectors
• Driving stakeholder engagement across senior internal and external partners
• Applying strong governance, risk management, and delivery frameworks
• Leading and developing high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment

Qualifications for the Head of Mobilisation:

• Degree or equivalent experience in related discipline
• Project or programme management qualification such as Association for Project Management or equivalent (desirable)

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 Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.