At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive meaningful improvements and support transformation projects in a key engineering environment.
- Company: Join Babcock, a leader in defence and engineering with a commitment to innovation.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension scheme, health support, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Inclusive culture with flexible working options and excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on high-profile projects that enhance operational performance.
- Qualifications: Degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience; strong change management skills.
The predicted salary is between 33900 - 42400 £ per year.
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 Business Improvement Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth.
The role involves supporting the Devonport Transformation Programme, helping to drive meaningful and sustainable improvements across one of the UK's most important engineering and defence environments. This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile transformation initiatives that improve operational performance, enhance efficiency, and deliver long-term value.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Support transformation and improvement projects that enhance business performance and operational effectiveness.
- Develop and implement change management plans that help teams successfully adopt new ways of working.
- Facilitate workshops, presentations, and stakeholder engagement activities to drive collaboration and innovation.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and help deliver sustainable solutions across the organisation.
- Analyse risks, remove roadblocks, and support project teams to achieve programme objectives and realise benefits.
Essential experience includes:
- Experience driving transformational change and business improvement initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of business improvement, project delivery, change management, business analysis, or continuous improvement methodologies.
- Proven ability to analyse complex problems, develop practical solutions, and support successful project delivery.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and Visio.
Qualifications:
- Degree qualified in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience.
- Commitment to developing towards Practitioner-level qualification in a business improvement discipline.
Desirable qualifications include:
- Association for Project Management qualification or equivalent.
- APMG Change Management Foundation or Practitioner qualification.
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 allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work.
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock is 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: 27/08/2026
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