Workshop Team Manager

Job Title:                     Workshop Team Manager

Location:                     Wareham, Dorset

Compensation:           £43,154 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF75477

Lead performance. Drive continuous improvement. Help support those who protect the UK.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Workshop Team Manager at Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.

The role

As a Workshop Team Manager, you'll be at the centre of workshop performance, helping to ensure operations run safely, efficiently and effectively. This is a varied leadership role where you'll use data, operational insight and problem-solving skills to drive productivity, support compliance and champion continuous improvement initiatives.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Analyse operational performance data to identify trends, opportunities and areas for improvement.


• Coordinate workshop activities to support safe, efficient and planned delivery of work.


• Lead safety, compliance and audit activities to maintain operational standards.


• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance quality, productivity and performance.


• Collaborate with supervisors and stakeholders to resolve issues and support operational success.

The role is based onsite at Bovington, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Workshop Team Manager:

• Working with data analysis and reporting tools, including Microsoft Excel.


• Working in a supervisory or people leadership position.


• Monitoring operational performance and identifying improvement opportunities.


• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to deliver business objectives.


• Experience supporting compliance, safety or quality-focused activities within an operational environment.

Qualifications for the Workshop Team Manager:

• Educated to Level 2 in the National Qualification Framework, including Intermediate Apprenticeship, Level 2 NVQ, GCSE Grade A* to C, O Level A to C, CSE Grade 1, or equivalent workplace experience.

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 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: 10/09/2026