Job Title: Transport Manager
Location: Buckinghamshire, England
Compensation: £45,240 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72039
Help us deliver critical Transport Services that keep RAF Halton moving
At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Transport Manager at RAF Halton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
The role
As a Transport Manager, you'll lead the delivery, compliance and performance of transport services at RAF Halton. You'll join an established and supportive team, where you'll drive innovation, improve working practices and ensure the effective, safe and compliant management of all transport activities on site. This is an opportunity to make a real impact, shaping how services are delivered while supporting essential military operations.
Day-to-day, you will:
* Manage, coordinate and oversee all transport activities and transport staff.
* Ensure full compliance with transport legislation, standards and internal procedures.
* Act as the named Transport Services Manager and CPC Holder for the Babcock Passenger and Goods Vehicle Operator Licence.
* Drive continuous improvement across transport operations, refining processes and ways of working.
* Liaise with RAF Unit Staff and internal stakeholders to deliver exceptional service and meet operational and financial targets.
This role is full time working 39 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire. Shift patterns include working Monday–Thursday 08:00–17:00 and Friday 08:00–16:00.
Essential experience of the Transport Manager:
Defence Transport Manager (DTM) experience.
Qualifications for the Transport Manager:
* Certificate of Professional Competence – Passenger Transport International (NVQ Level 3).
* Certificate of Professional Competence – Road Haulage International (NVQ Level 3).
* Full UK clean driving licence.
* Current ADR Awareness Instructor qualification (valid for five years).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 ).
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 26,000 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 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: 04/03/2026
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