At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive transformational change and enhance performance in a key engineering environment.
- Company: Join Babcock, a leader in engineering and defence with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, generous holidays, and flexible working options.
- Other info: Hybrid working arrangements and opportunities for professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national infrastructure and defence while growing your career.
- Qualifications: Degree-level qualification and experience in business improvement or transformation.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Drive Transformation. Deliver Lasting Change. Make an Impact Where It Matters. 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 Senior Business Improvement Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Senior Business Improvement Specialist, you'll play a critical role in shaping and delivering transformational change across one of the UK's most important engineering and defence environments. Working within the Business Improvement team, you'll help drive the Devonport Transformation Programme by identifying opportunities to enhance performance, improve efficiency and deliver sustainable business value. Day-to-day, you'll have an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile transformation initiatives that support national infrastructure and defence capability. You'll collaborate with stakeholders across the business, lead improvement projects, solve complex challenges and influence meaningful change. In return, you'll be given the autonomy, support and development opportunities to further grow your expertise in business improvement, change management, continuous improvement, project management and organisational transformation.
- Leading business improvement and transformation initiatives that deliver measurable organisational benefits.
- Driving structured problem-solving activities to identify and implement sustainable solutions to complex business challenges.
- Supporting project and programme teams by applying best-practice methodologies across improvement, change and transformation activities.
- Coaching and influencing colleagues and stakeholders to successfully adopt new ways of working and embed change.
- Monitoring governance, risk and performance measures to ensure successful delivery of transformation objectives.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Business Improvement Specialist
- Demonstrable experience within business improvement, transformation or continuous improvement environments.
- Proven ability to lead and deliver improvement projects using recognised methodologies such as project management, change management, business analysis or lean principles.
- Experience solving complex, non-routine business problems and delivering practical, sustainable outcomes.
- Experience supporting transformation programmes, including governance, risk management and performance tracking.
- Strong understanding of how business improvement initiatives align with strategic organisational objectives.
Qualifications for the Senior Business Improvement Specialist
- Essential
- Degree-level qualification, or equivalent professional experience, in a relevant discipline.
- Practitioner-level qualification in at least one relevant specialism such as Project Management, Change Management, Business Analysis or Lean.
- Desirable
- Association for Project Management qualification.
- Change Management Practitioner or Prosci Practitioner certification.
- Business Analysis Practitioner qualification.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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.
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 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 Babcock 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.
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: 20/07/2026
