Plant Operations and Maintenance Manager

Job Title:              Plant Operations and Maintenance Manager
Location:              Plymouth, Devon
Compensation:    £51,941 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF60513

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Plant Operations and Maintenance Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Plant Operations and Maintenance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a highly successful team, responsible for the maintenance, repair and breakdown on Nuclear Cranes and Nuclear Facilities. You will be managing teams that are critical to the successful delivery of a variety of projects.

Day-to-day, you’ll manage the operations of the Cranes and Refuel Equipment Maintenance Organisation, leading a team to ensure availability and reliability of equipment under their care.  

• Ensuring comprehensive defects and deficiencies spreadsheet is produced, maintained, reviewed, and actioned for systems, structures, plant and equipment.
• To ensure the safe operation of all plant and processes to ensure compliance with the Nuclear Site Licence and MOD Authorisation Condition (LC/AC).
• To ensure compliance with the appropriate statutory health, safety and environmental requirements for any systems, structures, plant and equipment.
• Ensuring that all activities conform to professional engineering standards, quality orders and nuclear safety constraints.

This role is full time 35, hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Plant Operations and Maintenance Manager

• Experience of maintenance/repair or breakdown of electrical/mechanical systems ideally within a high hazard/heavy industry. 
• Excellent Stakeholder management and communication skills. 
• Experience managing and utilising commissioning/maintenance documentation. 
• Proven leadership and management, having led a team in the completion of operations and maintenance on safety related equipment. 
• Experience in producing and managing work-related programmes/schedules.

Qualifications for the Plant Operations and Maintenance Manager 

• HNC or NVQ Level 4 (or above) in an Engineering discipline. (Mechanical or Electrical)
• Undertaken or willing to undertake Nuclear Plant Fundamentals 1 and 2 – Desirable 
• IOSH or NEBOSH Course – Desirable

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 (www.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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 03/12/2024

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