Fleet Repair Operations Manager

Job Title:                     Fleet Repair Operations Manager

Location:                     Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71212

Lead the optimisation of a mission‑critical fleet and help deliver capability that keeps the UK protected.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Fleet Repair Operations Manager at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury.

The role

As a Fleet Repair Operations Manager, you’ll be at the centre of a vital service that supports the performance and availability of the Stored Operational Fleet (SOF). Your work will ensure that all repair activity is prioritised, organised and delivered effectively — keeping essential vehicles ready when they’re needed most.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Coordinating, prioritising and facilitating repair activity for the Stored Operational Fleet to ensure operational readiness.


• Supporting the handover and takeover of vehicles, ensuring accuracy and clear communication throughout the process.


• Managing and maintaining data within internal and external Management Information Systems (MIS).


• Acting as a key link between internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure smooth and efficient repair activity.


• Ensuring compliance with all contractual, legal and customer requirements across the repair workflow.

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week and is based onsite at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury. Occasional flexibility to work from home where business needs allow.

Essential experience of the Fleet Repair Operations Manager:

Understanding of vehicle receipt, storage, maintenance and issue processes within a defence‑related environment.

Qualifications for the Fleet Repair Operations Manager:

• Level 2 qualification (GCSEs A*–C, Level 2 NVQ or equivalent).


• Level 3 technical or vocational qualification (e.g., Advanced Apprenticeship, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent).

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 (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 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.

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 [email protected] 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: 04/03/2026