Senior Business Improvement Specialist
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Business Improvement Specialist in Plymouth to drive significant transformation within the defence and engineering sectors, contributing to national security and operational efficiency.
// Key Responsibilities
- Drive sustainable improvements in performance, efficiency, and value within a complex engineering environment.
- Support the Devonport Transformation Programme, influencing large-scale change and solving operational challenges.
- Apply project management, change management, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Identify and implement practical process improvement solutions.
- Requires experience in business transformation, change management, and stakeholder engagement.
- Must achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
Business Improvement Specialist
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. If you join us, you can play your part as a Business Improvement Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth, Devon.
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 will:
- Contribute to the Devonport Transformation Programme, delivering sustainable improvements in performance, efficiency, and value.
- Support transformation projects by coordinating activities, stakeholders, and programme requirements.
- Develop and implement change management plans for successful project delivery.
- Facilitate workshops, presentations, and improvement activities to drive engagement and collaboration.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and support the implementation of practical solutions.
- Apply 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
- 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
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 can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many positions within Babcock are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Eligibility may be affected by place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and residency.
What We Offer
Babcock offers a comprehensive benefits package including:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- 10-days special paid leave for reservists in the armed forces
- Holiday Trading option (buy or sell annual leave)
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering
- Excellent development opportunities
- Employee assistance programme supporting wellbeing
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to lifetime engineering, making a difference to national security and public infrastructure. We are a disability confident, committed employer and are happy to talk about flexible working. We are committed to building an inclusive culture.