Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager

About the job

Job Title: Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute
Compensation: £50,000 - £60,000 Depending on Experience + benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF53586

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager at our Faslane site.

The role
As a Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is an exciting leadership role within the Fleet Engineering Department at HMNB Clyde and focuses on the delivery of high-quality engineering support to the Royal Navy's submarine flotilla. You will be joining a team of 550 highly effective engineers within the Fleet Operations Directorate. You will be responsible for leading the Delivery Coordinators and their teams in the safe delivery of multi-discipline engineering support across the Royal Navy's Nuclear Submarine programme.

Day to day, you'll be supporting a team of several hundred employees; championing process, technical and business improvements and using continuous improvement techniques to accelerate delivery in key business areas. You will utilise key performance indicators to deliver high performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost and people objectives.

• You will assist the Head of Fleet Engineering and Production Manager by maximising the utilisation and the efficiency of all the Department's resources.
• You will interact with senior customer representatives, as well as key internal stakeholders in the planning, enablement and delivery of Submarine maintenance and repair packages.
• You will be a cultural architect, ensuring that assessments of risk are carried out, human factors are considered, and safe working attitudes and practices are deployed consistently.
• You will support the development of the team-members and foster a high-performance team.
• In addition, you will belong to the wider Babcock Marine Nuclear Group and will have the opportunity to support other projects in different roles within your discipline with a focus on longer term career development

This role will largely be based on site but will occasionally require travel to support the programme. We are happy to discuss this with you in more detail.

Essential experience of the Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager

• Excellent leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications for the Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager

• An Engineering Degree Qualification or a recognised Engineering Apprenticeship or equivalent.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Annual Incentive Programme with up to 15% bonus potential
• AXA Private Healthcare Scheme
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 07/11/2023