Workshop Operations Manager
// Role Summary
Lead workshop performance and drive efficiency as a Workshop Operations Manager in Richmond, North Yorkshire. This permanent, full-time role offers a chance to impact safety, productivity, and continuous improvement within a critical defence support environment.
// Key Responsibilities
- Drive workshop performance through data analysis and monitoring.
- Coordinate operational activities for safe and efficient work delivery.
- Manage compliance and audit activities to uphold standards.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives for enhanced safety and quality.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve issues and boost performance.
// Role Specification
Workshop Operations Manager
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 Operations Manager at Catterick, North Yorkshire.
As a Workshop Operations Manager, you'll play a key role in supporting workshop performance, helping to drive safety, productivity, compliance, and continuous improvement across operations. Working closely with supervisors and stakeholders, you'll provide the coordination, analysis, and operational support that keeps workshop activities running efficiently and safely. This is an exciting opportunity to influence performance, improve processes, and contribute to a critical defence support environment while developing your leadership and operational management experience.
The Role
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Driving workshop performance through data analysis, reporting, and performance monitoring.
- Coordinating operational activities to support safe and efficient delivery of work.
- Managing compliance and audit activities to ensure standards and policies are maintained.
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives that enhance safety, quality, and productivity.
- Collaborating with supervisors and stakeholders to resolve issues and improve operational performance.
This role is based on site at Catterick, North Yorkshire and is a 37-hour per week position, Monday to Friday.
Essential Experience
- Experience using data and reporting tools such as Microsoft Excel to analyse and present performance information.
- Experience working in a supervisory position.
- Ability to interpret operational data and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Experience supporting compliance, performance, or operational activities within a workshop, logistics, manufacturing, engineering, or similar environment.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Qualifications
Educated to Level 2 in the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) or equivalent workplace experience. This may include an Intermediate Apprenticeship, Level 2 NVQ, GCSEs, O Levels, or equivalent qualifications.
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.