Babcock International Group
Site Operations Manager
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Site Operations Manager
Site Operations Manager
Location: Shropshire, England Role Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF74331
About the Role
Lead frontline aviation operations that keep critical defence capability flying.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Site Operations Manager at our RAF Cosford, Shropshire site.
Responsibilities
As a Site Operations Manager, you’ll take overall responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of aircraft operations at RAF Cosford, ensuring engineering, maintenance, safety, flying operations, and support services operate seamlessly to meet contractual and customer requirements.
- Leading site operations, ensuring aircraft, engineering, and support activities meet contractual and customer requirements
- Managing and motivating onsite teams, providing clear leadership, direction, and performance oversight
- Engaging with key stakeholders, including military personnel and internal Babcock teams
- Overseeing reporting and performance data, ensuring accurate operational and statistical reporting
- Maintaining compliance with safety, regulatory, and company procedures across all site activities
Day-to-day, you’ll provide clear direction, manage operational performance, and work closely with military and civilian stakeholders to maintain high standards of safety, service, and compliance. Your leadership will directly influence operational readiness, team performance, and customer confidence, while offering an opportunity to further develop your career in a high-profile aviation environment.
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This role is full time (40 hours per week) and is based onsite at RAF Cosford, Shropshire.
Requirements
Essential Experience
Required experience of the Site Operations Manager role:
- Proven experience leading teams in a regulated operational or aviation environment
- Strong leadership capability, with confidence managing diverse, multi-disciplinary teams
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage effectively with customers and stakeholders
- Demonstrable problem-solving ability, using data and sound judgement to drive decisions
- Strong planning and organisational skills, managing multiple priorities and deadlines
Qualifications
- Full UK driving licence
- Human Factors qualification
- Recognised Safety, Health, Environment (SHE) or Fire qualification
- Defence or aviation sector experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain a Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) security clearance for this role.
Note: Many positions within Babcock are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. 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. Visit UK Government website for further details.
Benefits
We offer generous benefits to support you:
- 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 of special paid leave
- Holiday Trading: Allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave (opens February–March annually).
- Be Kind Day: One working day’s paid leave per year for volunteering with a registered charity
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About 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. Your work will contribute to products and services essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts, not just through impact but through meaningful careers that balance your life.
We call that Lifetime Engineering.
Culture and Equal Opportunities
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 during an interview.
Closing date: 03/07/2026 #AVIATION24
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