At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead teams to optimise production and ensure timely delivery for a major Defence programme.
- Company: Join a leading Defence company with a commitment to innovation and inclusivity.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, matched pension scheme, health support, and volunteering days.
- Other info: Flexible working options available; we value diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic environment while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Level 4 education or equivalent experience; strong leadership and decision-making skills required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 45000 £ per year.
Lead operational teams, optimise resources and deliver critical production output for a major Defence programme.
The role involves ensuring that production plans are delivered safely, efficiently and to target. You'll manage operational resources, oversee allocation and prioritisation of work, and ensure spend is controlled against plan. This role is key to maintaining operational readiness and driving continuous improvement across the business.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Managing operational teams and supporting the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment to offboarding.
- Allocating and prioritising resource to deliver production plans on time and within agreed constraints.
- Monitoring and controlling spend against delivery requirements.
- Making effective decisions based on available information and operational needs.
- Driving performance, maintaining safe working practices and ensuring compliance with company and regulatory standards.
This role is full time working 37 hours per week and is based at our Donnington site, with the option to work a 9-day fortnight.
Essential experience:
- Ability to lead and manage individuals and teams.
- Comfortable challenging and holding difficult conversations when required.
- Strong decision making skills using available data and judgement.
- Experience managing allocated budgets.
- Ability to prioritise effectively with limited resources.
Qualifications:
- Educated to Level 4 within the National Qualification Framework (HNC, Higher Apprenticeship, Level 4 NVQ or equivalent experience).
Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
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 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.
EEO statement: 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: 03/08/2026
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