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Business Improvement Specialist
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Job Title: Business Improvement Specialist
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £33,900 - £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72857
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 Business Improvement Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth.
The role
As a Business Improvement Specialist, you'll play a key role in supporting the Devonport Transformation Programme, helping to drive meaningful and sustainable improvements across one of the UK's most important engineering and defence environments. This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile transformation initiatives that improve operational performance, enhance efficiency, and deliver long-term value.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Support transformation and improvement projects that enhance business performance and operational effectiveness.
- Develop and implement change management plans that help teams successfully adopt new ways of working.
- Facilitate workshops, presentations, and stakeholder engagement activities to drive collaboration and innovation.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and helping to deliver sustainable solutions across the organisation.
- Analyse risks, removing roadblocks, and supporting project teams to achieve programme objectives and realise benefits
This is a full-time role working onsite, based at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth.
Essential experience of the Business Improvement Specialist
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- Experience driving transformational change and business improvement initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of business improvement, project delivery, change management, business analysis, or continuous improvement methodologies.
- Proven ability to analyse complex problems, develop practical solutions, and support successful project delivery.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and Visio.
Qualifications for the Business Improvement Specialist
Essential
- Degree qualified in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience.
- Commitment to developing towards Practitioner-level qualification in a business improvement discipline.
Desirable
- Association for Project Management qualification or equivalent.
- APMG Change Management Foundation or Practitioner qualification
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.
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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has 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.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 27/08/2026
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