Continuous Improvement Specialist

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Garelochhead; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering services company is seeking a Continuous Improvement Specialist to join their team in Helensburgh. The role involves driving improvements in maintenance planning and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance performance. Candidates should have an HNC/HND in engineering and technical skills with strong communication abilities. This full-time position offers hybrid working arrangements and a range of employee benefits.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Professional Fees payment

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in implementing continuous improvement in maintenance planning.
• Ability to produce clear and timely reports.
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to improve maintenance planning and performance.
• Collaborate with project teams for data-driven improvements.
• Manage relationships with senior stakeholders and engineering teams.

Skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Technical insight

Customer focus

Education

HNC/HND in engineering or related discipline

Minimum Level 3 qualification in mechanical engineering

Job description

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Location:

Faslane, Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Continuous Improvement Specialist

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF66687

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 Continuous Improvement Specialist at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As a Continuous Improvement Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Play a key role within project teams, leading learning initiatives to enhance maintenance planning and performance. Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to drive improvements through technical insight, data analysis, and streamlined processes.

Day-to-day, you’ll build and maintain strong working relationships across Babcock and customer teams. Lead a coordinated, company-wide approach to capturing, analysing, and applying lessons learned to improve future maintenance planning and delivery.

• Embedded within project teams to support delivery and continuous improvement
• Manage relationships with senior stakeholders, including customer project leads
• Engage with engineering teams on submarine-related technical issues
• Drive business process improvements across office-based functions
• Balance technical tasks with people-focused and data-driven responsibilities

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Continuous Improvement Specialist

• Identify and support improvements in maintenance planning
• Maintain and update lessons learned data accurately and efficiently
• Produce clear, timely reports to track progress and insights
• Respond to enquiries with professionalism and strong customer focus
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders across the organisation

Qualifications for the Continuous Improvement Specialist

• HNC/HND in engineering or a related discipline
• Minimum Level 3 qualification in mechanical engineering

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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

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 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 Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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.

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