Job Title: Electrical Laboratory and Workshop Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65557
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Laboratory and Workshop Manager at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.
The Role
As an Electrical Laboratory and Workshop Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role is critical in maintaining operational readiness, supporting engineering teams, and fostering a culture of safety, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
The Electrical Laboratory and Workshop Manager is a key operational role responsible for the safe, secure, and efficient management of electrical laboratories and workshop environments across the Sense and Connect, Effectors, and Space business units. Functionally reporting into the Head of Engineering Operations, the Lab Manager ensures compliance with all relevant safety and regulatory standards, while enabling high-quality engineering delivery through effective resource, equipment, and facility management.
- Lead lab safety initiatives and ensure a culture of proactive risk management.
- Collaborate with engineering and facilities teams to align lab operations with project and business needs.
- Maintain governance processes for incident reporting, compliance tracking, and audit readiness.
- Support onboarding and training of lab users, ensuring awareness of safety and operational procedures.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance lab efficiency and capability.
- Contribute to strategic planning for lab infrastructure and capability growth.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with working days onsite and days working from home. You may be required to travel to other Babcock sites around the UK.
Essential Experience Of The Electrical Laboratory And Workshop Manager
- Lead lab safety initiatives and ensure a culture of proactive risk management.
- Collaborate with engineering, HSE, and facilities teams to align lab operations with project and business needs.
- Maintain governance processes for incident reporting, compliance tracking, and audit readiness.
- Support onboarding and training of lab users, ensuring awareness of safety and operational procedures.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance lab efficiency and capability.
- Contribute to strategic planning for lab infrastructure and capability growth.
Qualifications For The Electrical Laboratory And Workshop Manager
- HNC/HND or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Operations, or related field (preferred).
- NEBOSH or IOSH certification (desirable).
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. However, the successful candidate must be able to obtain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance once in post.
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
[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: 08/08/2025
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