Operational Administrator

weServed; Wareham; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

Leave for Reservists

Job summary

Babcock at Bovington is seeking an Operational Administrator to support operational excellence in a busy defence environment. You will work with the Senior Operations Manager to coordinate administrative activities that keep the site running efficiently and effectively.

The role is full-time (37 hours per week) on site, requiring experience with ERP systems and MS Office to produce reports, presentations and documents. Security clearance is a prerequisite.

Qualifications

• Educated to Level 2 on the National Qualifications Framework, such as GCSE Grade C/4 or above.
• Experience providing administrative support within a busy operational, engineering, manufacturing or corporate environment.
• Excellent attention to detail with ability to manage multiple priorities and produce reports.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

ERP systems

Administrative support

Stakeholder comms

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Education

GCSE Level 2

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Title: Operational Administrator

Location: Wareham, Dorset

Compensation: £29,105 + Benefits

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

• 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 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 [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: 06/10/2026