Operations Manager

Babcock International; Whetstone; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP

Employee share

Shopping portal

Professional fees

Reservist leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Development opportunities

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking an Operations Manager to lead operational activities at Cambridge Road, near Whetstone, Leicestershire. The role offers hybrid working with a minimum onsite presence of three days per week and oversight of performance against customer requirements and regulatory obligations.

You will manage operations in a specialist services environment, drive continuous improvement, and ensure safety, quality and environmental standards are maintained while coordinating budgets and

Qualifications

• Demonstrable operational management experience in a regulated environment.
• Ability to achieve and maintain SC security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate and develop operational teams to meet objectives.
• Deliver HSE/quality/security performance through governance and accountability.
• Implement operational plans, schedules and improvement programmes to achieve KPIs.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives and innovative approaches.
• Manage budgets and stakeholder relationships to support performance and customer satisfaction.
• Experience delivering multiple complex services across diverse operations.
• Strong leadership in a regulated environment.
• Financial awareness and P&L responsibility.
• Customer service excellence and commercial awareness.
• Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Operational management experience

Job description

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.
• 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., 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)

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.

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.