FirstLine Manager - Reactor Cleaner

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading engineering company as a First Line Manager – Reactor Cleaner, overseeing a team and ensuring operational efficiency at the Devonport Royal Dockyard. You will manage complex projects while cultivating a safe working environment, driving team development and performance in a highly regulated sector.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

Professional fees payment

Volunteering leave

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Health and Safety processes.
• Experience supervising a team or willingness to learn.
• Knowledge of maintenance processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of multi-skilled workers.
• Ensure workplace safety and compliance.
• Provide technical guidance.

Skills

Health and Safety understanding

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Motivation

Nuclear procedures knowledge

Education

ONC, NVQ Level 3

ILM Level 3

IOSH

Job description

Job Title: First Line Manager – Reactor Cleaner
Location: Plymouth Devon
Compensation: £40,098 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64708

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 First Line Manager – Reactor Cleaner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a First Line Manager – Reactor Cleaner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Are you an experienced First Line Manager looking for your next challenge? Join Babcock Devonport in Plymouth and take the lead in complex engineering projects, driving operational success and team development in a dynamic environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead and manage a team of multi-skilled workers, specifically overseeing Production Support Operatives and Reactor Cleaners to ensure operational efficiency and high standards of work.

• Promote and oversee control of work processes.
• Ensure workplace safety and compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards.
• Manage team development, focusing on time, performance, behaviours, and quality.
• Provide technical guidance in your area of expertise.
• Take ownership of project objectives, delivering on schedule and to quality standards per company procedures.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Primarily, it involves 4-week shift cycles consisting of either day/back shift or day/night shift.

Essential experience of the First Line Manager – Reactor Cleaner

• Strong understanding of Health and Safety processes in production activities.
• Experience supervising a team or willingness to learn.
• Knowledge of repair, replacement, overhaul, and maintenance processes.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to motivate a team.
• Good understanding of nuclear procedures.

Qualifications for the First Line Manager – Reactor Cleaner

• ONC, NVQ Level 3
• ILM Level 3
• IOSH

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintainBaseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)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

• 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 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.

Closing date: 16/06/2025

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