Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager

About the job

Job Title: Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Bonus + Private Healthcare + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54361

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 Clyde, Faslane site.

The role
As a Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll lead a team of Delivery Co-ordinators to deliver Fleet Engineering maintenance and repair projects across nuclear powered vessels. This will cover various engineering disciplines, including Mechanical, Electrical, Nuclear, Combat Systems, Fabrication and Welding. Through which, you will provide a clear interface between the execution of work by the Fleet Engineering team, the wider Fleet Operations Directorate and the Customer.

Day to day, you'll lead, develop and direct a team of 50 - 75 employees, including engineering line leaders, engineering specialists and Industrial workers to achieve their part of the project and maintain operational performance within the required constraints of safety, quality, schedule and cost.

• Effective management of engineering output to ensure the technical solutions in line with the agreed technical scope. Apply technical expertise to ensure quality standards are achieved across engineering projects and ensure that any learnings from experience are shared across the Fleet Operations directorate, waterfront and the Joint Submarine Enterprise.
• Ensure the highest standards of health and safety in immediate area of responsibility and ensure all team members across Engineering and other functional areas cooperate with the required standards outset by the business.
• Promote effective cooperation across Engineering and other functional teams. Work closely with the wider Fleet Engineering department and the Babcock Fleet Programmes management function to develop and manage demand profiles for internal resources and external subcontractors, to satisfy project requirements and effectively manage any change.
• Cultivate and maintain stakeholder relationships across key interfaces, internal and external to the business, through the deployment of effective communication and management.
• Support the development of Engineering capability to meet the demands of the future programme. Maintain a knowledge of industry best practice, promote a culture of engineering best practice and provide leadership in driving cultural developments and change.
• Develop, mentor and coach members of the team in support of their development as well as the performance of the overall engineering team.

Please note candidates must be comfortable working at height and in confined spaces.

The Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager role is full time, 37 hours per week, based onsite at HMNB Clyde near Helensburgh.

Essential experience of the Fleet Engineering Delivery Manager

• Management of multi-disciplined engineering teams on large scale, complex projects within a high regulatory environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of safety management within a high risk, complex environment; ensuring their own and their team's compliance with company and customer procedures/policies, as well as any applicable statutory industry standards to maintain the highest standard of safety and quality in output.
• Leadership, coaching and mentoring with the ability to influence key stakeholders to ensure a positive safety culture and best practices.
• Ability to identify and assess complex engineering work packages; effectively planning, preparing and delivering in line with the requirements of agreed KPIs.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface with internal and external stakeholders.
• HR management experience of capability, absence management, recruitment support disciplinary and grievance processes - i.e., Demonstrable experience of the application of HR policies.

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

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• 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 130 years 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.

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