Senior Business Improvement Specialist

Job Title:                     Business Improvement Specialist

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           Salary starting from £44,600 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF76204

Help drive meaningful transformation that shapes the future of UK defence and engineering

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 site.

The role

As a Business Improvement Specialist, you’ll contribute to the Devonport Transformation Programme, helping deliver sustainable improvements that enhance performance, efficiency and value across a complex engineering environment. This is an exciting opportunity to influence large-scale change, solve operational challenges and support the delivery of critical programmes that contribute to national security.

Day-to-day, you’ll contribute to the Devonport Transformation Programme, helping deliver sustainable improvements that enhance performance, efficiency and value across a complex engineering environment. This is an exciting opportunity to influence large-scale change, solve operational challenges and support the delivery of critical programmes that contribute to national security.

• Supporting transformation projects by coordinating activities, stakeholders and programme requirements.


• Developing and implementing change management plans that enable successful project delivery.


• Facilitating workshops, presentations and improvement activities to drive engagement and collaboration.


• Identifying opportunities for process improvement and supporting the implementation of practical solutions.


• Applying project management, change management and continuous improvement methodologies to deliver measurable business benefits.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Business Improvement Specialist

• Demonstrable experience driving business transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.


• Strong understanding of project delivery, change management, business analysis and improvement methodologies.


• Proven ability to analyse complex challenges and deliver practical, value-adding solutions.


• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project and Visio.

Qualifications for the Business Improvement Specialist

Essential:

• Degree-level qualification in a relevant subject, or equivalent career-based knowledge and experience.


• Association for Project Management fundamentals qualification or equivalent.


• APMG Change Management Foundation qualification or equivalent.

Desirable:

• Practitioner-level qualifications in business improvement, project management or change management disciplines.


• Working towards specialist practitioner accreditation within a recognised business improvement discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 07/10/2026

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