Operations Manager

Babcock International; Leicester Forest East; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Be Kind Day and volunteering leave

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear in Leicestershire is seeking an experienced Operations Manager to lead and optimize our regulated service operations. You will oversee 37 hours per week at Cambridge Road, Whetstone, with hybrid working and a minimum of three days on site to ensure delivery against customer requirements and regulatory obligations.

As a senior operations professional, you will drive safety, quality and environmental performance, manage budgets, and build strong internal and external

Qualifications

• Experience delivering multiple complex services in regulated environments.
• Operational leadership in regulated settings.
• Financial awareness with profit and loss responsibility.
• Commercial awareness and customer service expertise.
• Experience developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Operations leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Health & safety

Continuous improvement

Job description

Job Title: Operations Manager

Location: Whetstone, Leicestershire

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77039

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 Cambridge Road, near Whetstone, Leicestershire.

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 Cambridge Road, Whetstone. 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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