Babcock
Operations Manager
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Job Title: Operations Manager
Location: Warminster, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38,800 - £42,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75376
Lead operational excellence and help deliver critical 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 an Operations Manager at Warminster, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.
The role
As an Operations Manager, you'll lead the operational delivery of outputs across the Mowag Programme, ensuring teams have the people, tools, systems, and processes needed to safely deliver high-quality results. You'll play a key role in driving performance, supporting continuous improvement, and building strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of operational delivery within a programme that supports critical defence capability. You'll combine leadership, planning, customer engagement, and operational oversight to ensure delivery targets are achieved safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Lead the delivery of operational outputs while promoting a strong safety-first culture.
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members to build capability and support future business needs.
- Manage operational systems, reporting activities, and fleet management processes to support effective planning and decision-making.
- Ensure work areas, tools, and equipment remain compliant with safety and quality requirements.
- Build strong relationships with customers, workshop teams, planners, and support functions to achieve successful programme delivery.
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This role is based at Warminster and is a 37-hour per week position. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Operations Manager:
- Experience leading teams and influencing stakeholders across an operational environment.
- Strong communication skills with the confidence to engage at senior site level.
- Understanding of workforce development, training needs, and skills planning.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple functions to deliver excellent customer service.
- Knowledge of health and safety policies, procedures, and implementation within an operational setting.
Qualifications for the Operations Manager:
- Educated to Level 4 in the National Qualification Framework (Higher Apprenticeship, HNC, Level 4 NVQ) or equivalent workplace experience.
- Experience using fleet management and operational management systems.
- Competent user of SAP ERP, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Office applications.
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 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.
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Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 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: 21/08/2026
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