Workshop Team Manager

Babcock International; East Burton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP & annual health check

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day volunteering leave

Job summary

Babcock International operates workshops at Bovington near Wareham, Dorset, seeking a Workshop Team Manager to lead performance, safety and continuous improvement initiatives. This onsite role focuses on data-driven decisions, supervising staff and coordinating activities to ensure safe, efficient delivery of work.

You will use Excel and other tools to analyse trends, drive improvements, and collaborate with stakeholders to achieve business objectives, while meeting security and compliance

Qualifications

• Experience using data and reporting tools to drive improvements.
• Supervisory or people leadership experience.
• Track record of monitoring performance and identifying improvements.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to meet objectives.
• Experience supporting compliance, safety or quality activities.

Responsibilities

• Analyse operational performance data to identify trends, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Coordinate workshop activities to support safe, efficient and planned delivery of work.
• Lead safety, compliance and audit activities to maintain operational standards.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance quality, productivity and performance.
• Collaborate with supervisors and stakeholders to resolve issues and support operational success.

Skills

Data analysis

People leadership

Performance monitoring

Stakeholder collaboration

Compliance & safety

Education

Level 2 NVQ or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

As a Workshop Team Manager, you'll be at the centre of workshop performance, helping to ensure operations run safely, efficiently and effectively. This is a varied leadership role where you'll use data, operational insight and problem-solving skills to drive productivity, support compliance and champion continuous improvement initiatives. Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Analyse operational performance data to identify trends, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Coordinate workshop activities to support safe, efficient and planned delivery of work.
• Lead safety, compliance and audit activities to maintain operational standards.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance quality, productivity and performance.
• Collaborate with supervisors and stakeholders to resolve issues and support operational success.

The role is based onsite at Bovington, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Workshop Team Manager:

• Working with data analysis and reporting tools, including Microsoft Excel.
• Working in a supervisory or people leadership position.
• Monitoring operational performance and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to deliver business objectives.
• Experience supporting compliance, safety or quality-focused activities within an operational environment.

Educated to Level 2 in the National Qualification Framework, including Intermediate Apprenticeship, Level 2 NVQ, GCSE Grade A to C, O Level A to C, CSE Grade 1, or equivalent workplace experience.

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

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Workshop Team Manager at Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset., 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.

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 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