At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead transformative projects and drive sustainable change in a key engineering environment.
- Company: Join a leading engineering and defence company with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy generous holidays, pension contributions, health support, and volunteering days.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a commitment to inclusivity and diversity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enhancing performance and efficiency in vital projects.
- Qualifications: Degree-level education and experience in business improvement or transformation required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Drive Transformation. Deliver Lasting Change. Make an Impact Where It Matters.
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 will help drive the Devonport Transformation Programme by identifying opportunities to enhance performance, improve efficiency and deliver sustainable business value. You will collaborate with stakeholders across the business, lead improvement projects, solve complex challenges and influence meaningful change. This full‑time role is 35 hours per week and offers hybrid working arrangements.
- Lead business improvement and transformation initiatives that deliver measurable organisational benefits.
- Drive structured problem‑solving activities to identify and implement sustainable solutions to complex business challenges.
- Support project and programme teams by applying best‑practice methodologies across improvement, change and transformation activities.
- Coaching and influencing colleagues and stakeholders to adopt new ways of working and embed change.
- Monitor governance, risk and performance measures to ensure successful delivery of transformation objectives.
Essential experience
- 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
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 positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.
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 (opens February through to March annually)
- ‘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 with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We are 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
