Job Title: Site Manager
Location: Greater London, England
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead site operations that keep the UK safe and supported
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Site Manager at RAF Northolt, near Ruislip, Middlesex.
The role
As a Site Manager, you’ll take the lead at one of our key Aviation sites, overseeing a team of around people and ensuring the effective delivery of HADES services across RAF Northolt. This is a role where your leadership, commercial awareness and ability to build strong partnerships will directly influence service quality, operational excellence and long‑term customer confidence.
You’ll have responsibility for the overall management of site departments, ensuring compliance with all MOD and Babcock policies, processes and procedures. You’ll report directly to the Region 2 Manager and play a vital part in sustaining high‑performance operations across the region.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
1. Leading and developing a team of c. employees across multiple operational departments
2. Managing the contracted deliverables to ensure performance, quality and safe systems of work
3. Acting as the primary interface for the Air Commercial Team and Contract Monitoring Team
4. Overseeing financial performance, budgets and continuous improvement activities
5. Ensuring excellent customer service and strong relationships across key stakeholders.
This role is full time working 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Northolt, Greater London.
Essential experience of the Site Manager:
6. Experience managing large, diverse teams in an engineering operations or customer‑facing environment
7. Knowledge of Military Aviation Operations and MAA regulations (advantageous)
8. Experience in budget and P&L management, including cost modelling
9. Proven stakeholder management and relationship‑building experience
10. Strong capability in investigation, root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement.
Qualifications for the Site Manager:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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