Submarine Operations Centre Lead

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

12/19/2024

Job Title: Submarine Operations Centre Lead

Location: Filton, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Up to £70,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF53486

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 Submarine Operations Centre Lead at our Filton, Bristol site.

Submarine Support Engineering is a business unit within Babcock’s Nuclear Sector and is the industry leader in providing In Service Engineering and Programme support to the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) enabling better enterprise decision making to keep Submariners Safe at Sea. As a trusted provider for global defence & security, Babcock is an exciting and fast paced business carrying out a diverse range of activities. Key to our mission is submarine enterprise collaboration in delivering engineering and programme outputs that support the successful delivery of the In-Service submarine programme.

The Submarine Operations Centre is a key capability delivered by a joint Babcock / SDA team, using the combination of our knowledge and experience with ever improving digital tools and information to improve the management of submarine maintenance requirements and the design of maintenance projects to support effective operations delivered by our waterfront project and delivery teams.

The role

As a Submarine Operations Centre Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Executing and continuing future development of the joint Submarine Operations Centre capability.

Day-to-day, you’ll be embedded with the SDA’s Submarine Platform Managers as a technical problem solver to ensure smooth delivery to the client.

• Provide and present complex programme & engineering data analysis to enable collaborative decision-making, driving enterprise performance improvement
• You will lead critical Submarine Operations Centre planning and co-ordination activities, identifying Issues and actions affecting certainty of delivery of the submarine programme
• You will provide critical advice to key stakeholders whilst being supported by project & engineering teams conducting key engineering & programme analysis
  
  
  

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to Bristol BTC OR Abbey Wood on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience Of The Submarine Operations Centre Lead

• Knowledge of submarine in-service support arrangements
• Proven senior stakeholder management experience
• Full Project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out
• Experience in a project management position
• Ability to champion high performance & inspire others
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Submarine Operations Centre Lead

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering / project / construction management or equivalent experience
• Chartership or demonstrated route to chartership in project management or engineering
  
  
  

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)

Our Benefits

• Private Healthcare
• 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 most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills
  
  
  

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.

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