Operations Manager

Babcock International Group; Warminster; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading defense and space manufacturing company as an Operations Manager in Warminster. This full-time role involves overseeing production reporting, resource allocation, and risk management. Benefit from hybrid working arrangements and a generous benefits package including a matched pension and professional fees coverage.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Holiday Trading benefit

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering work

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with JAMES fleet management tool is essential.
• Competent in SAP, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Office.
• Strong ability to lead teams and manage customer relations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee weekly production reporting and allocate resources efficiently.
• Manage customer meetings and oversee risk management.
• Ensure all planned outcomes are achieved reliably.

Skills

Team Management

Risk Management

Resource Allocation

Collaboration

Education

Level 4 in National Qualification Framework (NQF)

Tools

SAP ERP

Microsoft Office

Excel

PowerPoint

JAMES Fleet Management Tool

Job description

2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Job Title: Operations Manager

Compensation: £37,850 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64821

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 Operations Manager at our Warminster site.

Job Title: Operations Manager

Location: Warminster, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £37,850 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64821

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 Operations Manager at our Warminster site.

The role

As an Operations Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a dynamic role focused on equipping the delivery team with the right people, tools, and processes to reliably achieve planned outcomes.

Day-to-day, you’ll handle weekly production reporting, lead customer meetings, and oversee risk and opportunity management and control. You’ll also:

• Delivery of programme communications
• Allocating resource efficiently to deliver programme outputs
• Continually tracking output against plan
• Continually looking 4 weeks in advance for available resource/capacity vs plan and reacting to misalignments
• Where behind plan making decisions how to recover, mitigate and flag risk upwards
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Operations Manager:

• Experienced user of the JAMES fleet management tool
• Competent in the use of SAP ERP system, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Office
• Ability to work collaboratively with functional departments to deliver an effective and efficient level of customer service
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Operations Manager:

• Educated to Level 4 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) as a minimum (Higher apprenticeship, HNC, Level 4 NVQ) or equivalent workplace experience
  
  
  

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 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: 03/07/2025

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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