Operations Manager

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Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Professional fee coverage

10 days special paid leave for Reservi

Be Kind Day

Descripción de la vacante

We are seeking an Operations Manager at our Berkeley, Gloucestershire site to lead operational activities in a regulated environment. The role requires delivering on customer requirements and regulatory obligations with a strong emphasis on safety and governance.

This is a 37-hour week role with hybrid working and three days on site minimum. Key duties include leading teams, managing budgets, and driving continuous improvement while building stakeholder relationships to support business

Formación

• Operational leadership experience in a regulated, high-stakes setting.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and develop operational teams to ensure resources are deployed effectively and objectives are met.
• Deliver health, safety, quality, environmental and security performance through governance and accountability.
• Implement operational plans, schedules and improvement programmes to meet departmental KPIs.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives and introduce innovative approaches to enhance performance and service delivery.
• Manage budgets and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support performance and customer satisfaction.

Conocimientos

Operational leadership

Regulated environment

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Descripción del empleo

Job Title: Operations Manager

Location: Berkeley, Gloucestershire

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76594

Lead operational excellence in a highly regulated environment

At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Operations Manager at our Berkeley, Gloucestershire site.

The role

As an Operations Manager, you'll be responsible for leading operational activities within a specialist services environment, ensuring performance is delivered in line with customer requirements, regulatory obligations and business objectives.

You will work 37 hours per week based at Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Hybrid working patterns are available with a minimum onsite presence of three days per week.

Day-to-day, you'll

• Leading, coordinating and developing operational teams to ensure resources are deployed effectively and objectives are achieved.
• Delivering health, safety, quality, environmental and security performance through effective leadership, governance and accountability.
• Implementing operational plans, schedules and improvement programmes to achieve departmental objectives and key performance indicators.
• Championing continuous improvement initiatives and introducing innovative approaches that enhance operational performance and service delivery.
• Managing budgets and building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support business performance and customer satisfaction.

Essential experience of Operations Manager:

• Experience successfully delivering multiple complex services across large and small-scale operational activities.
• Strong operational leadership experience within a regulated environment.
• Financial awareness, including previous profit and loss responsibility.
• Sound commercial awareness and customer service expertise.
• Experience developing and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications for the Operations Manager:

• Demonstrable operational management experience within a manufacturing, engineering, nuclear, defence, utilities or similarly regulated environment.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. 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 Cavendish 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.

Cavendish

We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover 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.

Closing date: 20/11/2026

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