Job Title: Workshop Manager
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67441
Lead with Purpose. Shape the Future.
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 Manager at our Ashchurch site, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Workshop Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be at the heart of our operational delivery — leading, inspiring and supporting your team to ensure critical outputs are delivered safely, efficiently and on time. This is a pivotal role where your decisions directly impact national defence readiness and operational excellence. You'll be empowered to make resource prioritisation decisions and drive performance, all while developing your leadership skills in a dynamic and rewarding environment
Day-to-day, you'll be:
* Leading and managing workshop teams to deliver operational outputs
* Coaching, mentoring and developing staff to reach their full potential
* Managing succession planning and performance across your team
* Authorising and overseeing overtime budgets for supervisory staff
* Making strategic decisions on resource allocation across work centres
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashchurch.
Essential experience of the Workshop Manager:
* Holding responsibility as a Material Account Holder with deep knowledge of the Defence Logistics Framework
* Demonstrating a proven track record in material account management within a Defence organisation
* Using Authority systems such as MJDI, JAMES and VITAL effectively
* Understanding Public Stores Accounting principles (DEFSTAN-0599)
* Managing equipment logistics for CES and TacCIS systems
Qualifications for the Workshop Manager:
* Educated to Level 4 in the National Qualification Framework (e.g. HNC, Level 4 NVQ, Higher Apprenticeship) or equivalent workplace experience
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 ) .
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 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 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
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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 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: 26/09/2025