Supervisor in Gloucester

Location: Gloucester, GB, GL20 8LZ

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74848

Lead operational excellence. Drive performance. Make a real impact.

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Supervisor at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

The role:

As a Supervisor, you'll be responsible for leading and managing an operational team to safely deliver production targets while ensuring effective workforce management, resource planning, process compliance and continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to take ownership of operational delivery, making sure the right people, tools, processes and resources are in place to achieve business objectives.

This role combines people leadership, production oversight, safety compliance and performance management, offering the chance to make a real impact within a critical operational environment while developing your leadership career.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Leading and developing an operational team to deliver production plans safely and efficiently.
• Managing recruitment, performance, capability, welfare and workforce planning activities.
• Ensuring compliance with health, safety, quality and operational processes.
• Overseeing production systems, equipment, tooling and resource availability to minimise operational risks.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives and maintaining accurate operational reporting and planning.

This role is full time working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based on site at Ashchurch, Gloucestershire.

Essential experience of the Supervisor:

• Experience supervising teams within a production, manufacturing, engineering, automotive, logistics or similar operational environment.
• Ability to coordinate people, resources and daily operations effectively.
• Experience working within a safety-focused and process-driven environment.
• Strong communication and team leadership skills.
• Experience supporting performance improvement and delivery against operational targets.

Qualifications for the Supervisor:

• Educated to Level 2 within the National Qualifications Framework (or equivalent).
• Relevant technical or vocational qualification equivalent to NQF Level 3, such as an Advanced Apprenticeship or Level 3 NVQ.

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:

• 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.

Babcock:

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 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.