Operations Manager in Leicester

Location: Whetstone, Leicestershire

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead operational excellence in a highly regulated environment.

The role:

As an Operations Manager, you'll be responsible for leading operational activities within a specialist services environment, ensuring performance is delivered in line with customer requirements, regulatory obligations and business objectives. You will work 37 hours per week based at Cambridge Road, Whetstone. Hybrid working patterns are available with a minimum onsite presence of three days per week.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Lead, coordinate and develop operational teams to ensure resources are deployed effectively and objectives are achieved.
• Deliver health, safety, quality, environmental and security performance through effective leadership, governance and accountability.
• Implement operational plans, schedules and improvement programmes to achieve departmental objectives and key performance indicators.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives and introduce innovative approaches that enhance operational performance and service delivery.
• Manage budgets and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support business performance and customer satisfaction.

Essential Experience:

• Experience successfully delivering multiple complex services across large and small-scale operational activities.
• Strong operational leadership experience within a regulated environment.
• Financial awareness, including previous profit and loss responsibility.
• Sound commercial awareness and customer service expertise.
• Experience developing and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrable operational management experience within a manufacturing, engineering, nuclear, defence, utilities or similarly regulated environment.

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 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.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with your 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. Join us and discover 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 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: 20/11/2026