Operational Administrator

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Lower Blandford St Mary; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension & life cover

Digital GP / health services

Employee discounts

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave (10 days)

Job summary

Babcock Bovington site in Dorset is seeking an Operational Administrator to coordinate essential admin tasks and support the operational management team in a busy defence environment.

You will manage communications, meetings, records and reports, maintain trackers and documentation, and ensure compliance with security clearance requirements while contributing to a high-performing site operations team.

Qualifications

• Educated to Level 2 on the National Qualifications Framework, such as GCSE Grade C/4 or above, NVQ Level 1, Diploma Level 1, or equivalent qualification.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and distribute weekly communications and cascade briefings across the site.
• Manage site noticeboards and digital communication platforms.
• Support meetings, audits and site visits; prepare records, reports and presentation materials.
• Maintain operational trackers, continuity plans, safety documents and RAID registers.
• Take accurate meeting notes, track actions and follow up on outstanding items.

Skills

SAP / ERP

Administrative support

Multi-priority

MS Office

Stakeholder comms

Education

GCSE grade C/4+ or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Microsoft 365

Job description

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Operational Administrator

Location: Wareham, Bournemouth, GB, BH20 6JD

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Operational Administrator

Location: Wareham, Dorset

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76294

Help keep critical operations running smoothly

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Operational Administrator at our Bovington site.

The role

As anOperational Administrator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a key role in supporting operational excellence across a busy and dynamic defence environment. Working closely with the Senior Operations Manager and wider management team, you'll help coordinate essential administrative activities that keep the site running efficiently and effectively.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Preparing and distributing weekly communications and cascade briefings across the site
• Managing and maintaining site noticeboards and digital communication platforms
• Supporting meetings, audits and site visits, including preparing records, reports and presentation materials
• Maintaining operational trackers, business continuity plans, safety documentation and RAID registers
• Taking accurate meeting notes, tracking actions and following up on outstanding activities

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Bovington.

Essential experience of the Operational Administrator

• Using enterprise resource planning systems such as SAP or similar business systems
• Providing administrative support within a busy operational, engineering, manufacturing or corporate environment
• Managing multiple priorities while maintaining excellent attention to detail
• Using Microsoft Office applications to produce reports, presentations and business documents
• Communicating effectively with a wide range of stakeholders across different teams

Qualifications for the Operational Administrator

• Educated to Level 2 on the National Qualifications Framework, such as GCSE Grade C/4 or above, NVQ Level 1, Diploma Level 1, or equivalent qualification

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 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see 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 [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.