Fleet Operations Manager

Job Title: Fleet Operations ManagerLocation: Wareham, Dorset Compensation: Competitive + BenefitsRole Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF64184

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 Operations Manager at our Bovington site.

The roleAs a Fleet Operations Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. To provide professional leadership, direction and management, to ensure that the Fleet AFV Operations Department meets all the requirements of the Contract within Combat Manoeuvre Centre (CMC). You will be the lead liaison with Babcock DSG Bovington over the prioritisation of CMC MRO activity

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:• Represent the Fleet Operations Department in liaison with the Authority and other agencies.• Coordinate the recruitment of staff for the Fleet Operations Department.• Manage staff expectations and issues at local level.• Produce reports and statistics regarding Fleet availability, status and performance within the Contract.• Take responsibility for the health and safety of all colleagues within the Fleet operations Department

This role is full time and based onsite at Allenby Barracks in Bovington.

Essential experience of the Fleet Operations Manager:• Ability to manage resources both human and equipment, in order to meet the requirements of the customer• People and team management skills and experience.• Experience in improvement and/or optimisation activity

Qualifications for the Fleet Operations Manager:• IT literate with a thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.

Security ClearanceThe successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 (www.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 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• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 26/05/2025