Supervisor

WeServed; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital healthcare and wellbeing

Job summary

Babcock in Leconfield, Beverley, is seeking a Supervisor to lead and coordinate operational teams, delivering production activities safely and efficiently in a national defence environment.

You will develop teams, drive continuous improvement, and ensure compliance while maintaining high performance and security clearance readiness.

Qualifications

• Educated to NQF Level 2 (or equivalent workplace experience).
• Relevant technical or vocational qualification at NQF Level 3 (or equivalent).
• Completed, or willing to work towards, First Line Manager training.
• Completed, or willing to work towards, British Safety Council Level 2 qualification.
• Completed, or willing to work towards, Lean Management for Supervisors training

Responsibilities

• Leading and coordinating operational teams to deliver planned production activities safely and efficiently.
• Managing people, resources, equipment and workloads to achieve operational targets.
• Monitoring performance, identifying risks and resolving delivery issues to maintain operational effectiveness.
• Supporting employee development, welfare and attendance management while building a high-performing team.
• Driving safety, quality, compliance and continuous improvement initiatives across the operation.

Skills

Team leadership

Ops management

Resource planning

Performance monitoring

Safety & compliance

Education

NQF Level 2

NQF Level 3

First Line Manager

British Safety Council Level 2

Lean Management for Supervisors

Job description

Job Title: Supervisor

Location: Leconfield, Beverley

Compensation: £40,319 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77006

Lead, inspire and deliver operational excellence in a role that directly supports national defence capability.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Supervisor at Leconfield, near Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire.

The role

As a Supervisor, you'll lead and coordinate operational teams, resources and production activities to ensure critical outputs are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest standards. This is an exciting opportunity to combine people leadership, operational management and continuous improvement in a security-cleared defence environment, where your contribution will have a direct impact on operational performance and mission success. You'll be empowered to develop teams, enhance processes and build your own leadership career within a business that supports some of the UK's most important defence programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading and coordinating operational teams to deliver planned production activities safely and efficiently.
• Managing people, resources, equipment and workloads to achieve operational targets.
• Monitoring performance, identifying risks and resolving delivery issues to maintain operational effectiveness.
• Supporting employee development, welfare and attendance management while building a high-performing team.
• Driving safety, quality, compliance and continuous improvement initiatives across the operation.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at Leconfield, Beverley.

Essential experience of the Supervisor

• Experience leading and managing operational, engineering, maintenance or production teams.
• Experience managing team performance, attendance, welfare and development.
• Experience planning resources and workloads to achieve operational objectives.
• Experience monitoring performance, managing risk and resolving operational challenges.
• Experience driving safety, compliance and continuous improvement activities.

Qualifications for the Supervisor

• Educated to NQF Level 2 (or equivalent workplace experience).
• Relevant technical or vocational qualification at NQF Level 3 (or equivalent).
• Completed, or willing to work towards, First Line Manager training.
• Completed, or willing to work towards, British Safety Council Level 2 qualification.
• Completed, or willing to work towards, Lean Management for Supervisors training

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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 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: 11/11/2026