Title: Mobilisation Manager
Role Overview
The Mobilisation Manager is responsible for leading the structured mobilisation of a major defence and nuclear infrastructure programme, establishing a fully integrated, governance‑ready organisation capable of delivering safely and efficiently from day one. Operating within a complex, highly regulated environment, this role translates programme strategy into executable mobilisation plans, ensuring alignment across multiple partners, workstreams and stakeholders. The position plays a central role in developing and assuring mobilisation frameworks, documentation and readiness activities that enable a controlled transition into delivery.
Accountabilities
- Lead the end‑to‑end mobilisation of a major infrastructure programme, ensuring readiness for transition into delivery
- Develop and implement integrated mobilisation plans, including scope, milestones, dependencies and performance measures
- Establish and maintain governance, assurance and readiness frameworks to support programme mobilisation activities
- Coordinate mobilisation across multiple partner organisations, ensuring alignment of resources, processes and delivery expectations
- Produce and assure high‑quality mobilisation documentation, including plans, reports and readiness assessments
- Manage risks, issues and interdependencies associated with mobilisation, ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies are in place
- Engage with senior client stakeholders, partners and regulatory bodies to support effective mobilisation and programme alignment
- Monitor mobilisation progress, providing structured reporting and insights to support informed decision‑making
- Support the integration of delivery models, operating structures and ways of working across the programme
Experience Requirements
- Proven experience leading mobilisation or transition activities on major infrastructure, defence or nuclear programmes
- Experience managing multi‑organisation mobilisation across large‑scale programme environments
- Experience delivering work within highly regulated environments such as nuclear, defence or public sector programmes
- Experience developing mobilisation plans, governance frameworks and formal programme documentation
- Track record of delivering programme mobilisation activities with limited oversight
- Preferred: experience working on UK nuclear licensed sites or within the UK nuclear sector
- Preferred: experience with integrated delivery models or partnership‑based programme environments
- Preferred: knowledge of Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) frameworks or equivalent assurance methodologies
- Preferred: experience working with NEC4 contracts within infrastructure or defence programmes
Skill and Competencies
- Demonstrates strong leadership and coordination capabilities across multiple organisations and stakeholder groups
- Applies excellent planning, organisational and delivery management skills to achieve programme objectives
- Translates strategic intent into structured, actionable and measurable delivery plans
- Communicates effectively and builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Maintains a high level of attention to detail, with a strong focus on governance, assurance and compliance
- Operates effectively in fast‑paced, complex and evolving programme environment
- Self‑motivated, with the ability to work independently and take ownership with minimal supervision
- Adopts a structured, disciplined and outcomes‑focused approach to delivery
- Confident working in complex and ambiguous environments, demonstrating sound judgement
- Proactively identifies risks, gaps and opportunities for continuous improvement
- Demonstrates resilience and adaptability when working under pressure
- Works collaboratively, contributing positively as part of a wider team
Qualifications / Certifications
Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction or a related discipline
Location
UK (Hybrid – site‑based and remote working as required)
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